HP 3PAR VSS Provider 2.3.0 Software for Microsoft Windows Release Notes

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Supported platforms

ReleasePlatform

See Note.Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

See Note.Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

See Note.Microsoft Windows Failover Cluster

NOTE: For information about the supported hardware and software platforms, refer to the Single

Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) document. To obtain a copy of this

documentation, see http://www.hp.com/storage/spock.

Prerequisites

• HP 3PAR InForm CLI installation.

• For information about the supported hardware and software platforms, refer to the Single Point

of Connectivity Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) document. To obtain a copy of this

documentation, see http://www.hp.com/storage/spock.

• The Windows logical volume must be configured as Basic Disk and located on the HP 3PAR

Storage System.

• Microsoft .Net Framework v4.0 or later.

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package.

New features and enhancements

• Support for the HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3

• Support for co-ordinated snapshot

HP 3PAR OS HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 enables management of SSL certificate. Upon completion of the

upgrade to this patch, a new self-signed 2048-bit RSA SSL certificate is created on the array. If HP

3PAR VSS Provider for Microsoft Windows is communicating to the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage system

over SSL, HP 3PAR VSS Provider must be upgraded to enforce certificate validation.

Known issues

WorkaroundDescriptionIssue ID

This is a known Microsoft issue. For more

information, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base

website:

Sometimes, a mount operation at a database or an instance

level succeeds but event log might report following error:

VSS Unexpected error DeviceIoControl .

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2853247

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/.

None.Installation task displays Japanese characters.62178

None.Canceling the VSS uninstall process removes the VSS service.60576

Use the following commands:When we use the command install/uninstall of HP

3PAR VSS provider multiple times, there is a

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• sc create "3PARVSSProvider"

binPath="C:\Program

possibility that HP 3PAR VSS Service is not listed in the

services.msc, but we can see it being installed through

Files\3par\HWPRV\TpdVssProvider.exe"

Supported platforms 3