3PAR VSS Provider for Microsoft Windows 1.6 User's Guide

3PAR VSS Provider for Microsoft Windows 1.6 User’s Guide
4.1
Features and Considerations
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Features and Considerations
In this chapter
4.1 Features 4.1
4.2 Special Considerations 4.3
4.1 Features
The following features are included in 3PAR VSS Provider for Microsoft Windows:
■ Atomic Shadow Copy creation.
Supports up to 64 shadow copies per volume (snapshots to a volume) within a shadow copy
set.
■ Writable Snapshot Volume.
Provides a “Point in Time” writable snapshot volume by using the Copy On Write technique
to the Volume Shadow Copy Service. This is a very quick process with little storage space
required.
■ User mode DLL installed as a Windows service to provide communication between VSS and
3PAR InServ Storage Servers.