SANsymphony Virtual Machine Settings

Security

  • Secure Boot support for new SANsymphony installations was added in 10.0 PSP13.
  • For prior releases disable any ‘Secure Boot’ option for virtual machines that will be used as SANsymphony DataCore Servers otherwise the installation of DataCore’s system drivers will fail.

Memory

  • When running a DataCore Server inside a Virtual Machine, do not enable Hyper-V's 'Dynamic Memory' setting for the SANsymphony Virtual Machine as this may cause less memory than expected to be assigned to SANsymphony’s cache driver.
  • Fix the 'Startup RAM' to the required amount.
  • Here is an example where a SANsymphony Virtual Machine has had its Startup RAM fixed to always use 30GB on startup:

This does not apply to other Hosts running in Hyper-V Virtual Machines.

Processor

Reserve all CPUs used for the SANsymphony virtual machine by setting the “Virtual machine reserve (percentage)” to 100.