Chapter
1:
SVP overview
The Service Processor (SVP) provides out
‑
of
‑
band configuration and management of the
storage system, and collects performance data for key components to enable diagnostic
testing and analysis.
The SVP is available as a physical (bare-metal) 1U management server or as a 64-bit
software application provided by Hitachi Vantara. The physical SVP server and the SVP
software applications are supported in the environments shown in the following table.
For the latest interoperability updates and details, see the SVP (Service Processor) OS and
Hypervisor support for Gx00, Fx00 report at
https://support.hitachivantara.com/en_us/
.
Table 1 Service processor (with Windows 10 Enterprise)
Operating system
Server/virtual
machine
Minimum SVP
version
Notes and
additional
requirements
Windows 7
Professional
VMware ESXi 6.0.0
88-01-02-x0/00
-
KVM on Oracle
Linux 7.2
(3.8.13-98.7.1.el7ue
k.x86_64, qemu-
kvm-1.5.3-105.el7.x
86_64)
88-01-02-x0/00
1
Windows 7
Professional Service
Pack 1
VMware ESXi
6.0.0(Update 2)
Cluster
88-01-02-x0/00
1
-
Windows 2012 r2
Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2012 R2
88-01-02-x0/00
1
-
Windows 10
Enterprise
Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2012 R2
88-01-02-x0/00
1
-
Note:
1
"x" of SVP version shows model, '6' is "VSP G900 and VSP F900" or "VSP G700 and VSP
F700" or "VSP G370 and VSP F370, '2' is "VSP G350 and VSP F350".
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