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Installing the StorMagic SvSAN Plugin in vSphere

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04/02/2026
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I've been with StorMagic a little over two months and while learning about our products I thought why not go through a deployment following the online documentation our customers use to see exactly what they experience. So I have our install documentation pulled up here and I am going to follow along and see how simple it is to install SVSAN in my lab environment. After logging into vSphere, I navigated to my host and selected Deploy OVF Template. Then browse to the SVSAN OVA file location and select the file and start the deployment wizard. Let's give our VM a descriptive name of DSPlugin and select my destination host. Next we will choose a compute resource for this VM and click Next. After reviewing the details and then accepting the license agreements, I reached the Storage Configuration page and selected my storage for this VM. Next we'll select our VM network and then customize our deployment template. First we'll give a user name and password. Then we'll give it a hostname of DSPlugin. Then enter our domain followed by our DNS server, gateway, and NTP server. Since we're going to use a static IP we will uncheck the HCP and then enter our IP address and our network prefix and hit Next to review our settings and then click Finish to deploy the VM. Once the deployment is finished, we'll go ahead and power on our plugin VM and register it with our vCenter. Once logged in, we'll run the command to register our plugin with our vCenter and we'll get a confirmation that the plugin has been registered. After that we can go to our vCenter, select Configure and we'll see our StoreMagic plugin section where we can deploy VSAs onto our hosts which I will cover in the next video. I hope you enjoyed this video showing how simple the installation of SVSAN is and stay tuned for more videos on StoreMagic products and features.

TL;DR

  • The SvSAN Plugin installs via standard VMware OVF template deployment, requiring basic VM configuration including network settings, credentials, and vCenter registration.
  • Installation follows StorMagic's online documentation and takes approximately 3 minutes to complete, demonstrating the product's ease of deployment for edge environments.
  • Once registered with vCenter, the plugin enables direct deployment of Virtual Storage Appliances from the vSphere Configure interface, streamlining storage provisioning workflows.

Summary

This tutorial demonstrates the complete installation process for the StorMagic SvSAN Plugin in a VMware vSphere environment. Dennis, a Technical Marketing Manager at StorMagic, walks through a real deployment using the company's official documentation to showcase the customer experience. The installation follows a standard OVF template deployment workflow in vSphere, beginning with uploading the SvSAN OVA file and configuring the virtual machine with network settings, credentials, and system parameters. The process concludes with registering the plugin with vCenter, enabling administrators to deploy Virtual Storage Appliances (VSAs) directly from the vSphere interface. The demonstration emphasizes the simplicity and straightforward nature of the deployment, positioning SvSAN as an accessible solution for edge computing environments requiring lightweight, highly available storage infrastructure.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction and Documentation Setup
0:34 - OVF Template Deployment
1:21 - Network and System Configuration
2:18 - Plugin Registration with vCenter

Key Quotes

0:18 "I thought why not go through a deployment following the online documentation our customers use to see exactly what they experience."
2:56 "I hope you enjoyed this video showing how simple the installation of SVSAN is and stay tuned for more videos on StoreMagic products and features."

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