EMC UnityVSA with SRM configuration

I am not going to get into the details of setting up SRM and ECM Unity this is very well documented so the information I will provide is after SRM is installed and configured on vCenter and EMC Unity is installed and configured.

Previous blog post shows UnityVSA setup:
https://virtualrealization.blogspot.com/2016/05/how-to-emc-unityvsa-installation-and.html


EMC UnityVSA:

I already have my pools and LUN's configured on both Unity virtual storage appliances.
Firstly we want to setup an interface for replication on both Unity VSA's.
In Unisphere select Data protection -> Replication
Select Interfaces
Click + sign











Select Ethernet Port and provide IP address information.

click OK

Now lets configure the remote connections between Unity arrays.
In Unisphere select Data protection -> Replication
Select Connections
Click + sign

Enter Replication connection information for your remote Unity VSA.
Asynchronous is the only supported method for the Unity VSA.



Click OK.
Select the remote system and click "Verify and Update" to make sure everything is working correctly.

EMC UnityVSA : adding LDAP authentication

Here are the steps to setup LDAP authentication for EMC UnityVSA.

Login to Unisphere.
Select the cog in top right hand corner to open settings.
Select Users and Groups -> Directory Services
Enter LDAP server information

Click Apply
Click Verify Connection
If successful, Select Advanced
This is recommended since otherwise you will run into problems with assigned users and groups since a default user and group search path created for domain is "cn=Users,dc=domain,dc=com" which in most cases will not fit in your company's AD structure.



Click Ok
Click Apply
Select Users and Groups -> User management
Click + Sign

Select User or Group type
Select LDAP User

Enter username.  Wish validation could have taken place for LDAP user or group at this point and not after entering all information.
Enter role
Click Finish

EMC UnityVSA installation and configuration

I am currently testing SRM and installed Nimble as my virtual storage array with Nimble SRA 3.0 but having to many problems with getting the array pairs working correct so decided to setup UnityVSA community addition which is available for free with up to 4TB of data.  At the bottom of the page I provided some useful links:

Installation:
first off lets review requirements:

• vCenter 5.5 update and later.
• ESXi 5.x and later
• 12GB Memory
• 2 vCPU

Deploy the OVA downloaded "UnityVSA-4.0.0.7329527.ova".

I am not going to provide the steps to deploy and OVA since this is pretty straight forward and nothing really to configure except for management and data ports and management IP address.

After deployment is completed and VM powered on, open a browser and point to IP address specified during OVF deployment.

You will be presented with a login screen.

Type admin / Password123#

Wizard will appear for initial configuration.

Specify password to replace the default.

You need to request the license file by providing the System UUID to the following website: 

https://www.emc.com/auth/elmeval.htm

Download the license file and install it.

Enter DNS information

Enter NTP information

Pools can be configured here but you do you require a manually created VM disk.  If you have not added the new disk within vCenter for the VM then I would recommend just skipping this step for now.

Enter SMTP information

Create iSCSI network interface.  

This can also be performed later but I created this on the data network ports i specified during the OVF deployment.

Creating NAS server but this can be done at later time.

Initial setup is now completed, yay!