HP StorageWorks EVA VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 7.02.00 for Windows 2008 R2 Release Notes

For Windows Server 2008 R2, you must manually remove the previous version (v6.04.00) of the
hardware provider software before installing the latest version.
There are three installers for the hardware providers:
• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_P6000_v6_06_00_x86.exe
NOTE:
The x86 installer is applicable only to Windows Server 2008, but the x64 and ia64 installers are
applicable to both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_P6000_v6_06_00_x64.exe
• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_P6000_v6_06_00_ia64.exe
NOTE:
• Windows Server 2008 Server Core does not run on Itanium servers.
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core and Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 run only on
x64 servers.
• The installer package is common for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
For installation instructions see the HP StorageWorks Hardware Providers for VDS/VSS installation
guide (5697-0804, February 2011). The guide is included with the installation software package
and provides detailed installation and configuration instructions.
Compatibility/Interoperability
• Only one dedicated Command View workstation is supported within the SAN configuration which
manages VDS/VSS storage resources.
• If the P6000 VSS hardware provider and Command View EVA are present on the same server,
do not include the drive letter or mount point where the Command View EVA software is located
as part of a shadow copy volume set. For example, if the P6000 VSS hardware provider and
Command View EVA are on drive D, do not include drive D with an P6000 LUN in a shadow
copy set. Doing so causes the P6000 VSS hardware provider to time out due to conflict with
Command View logging on this drive.
• Mirrorclones are supported with microcode version XCS 6.11 or later.
• Version 5.04.00 of the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Hardware Providers software
is the last version that will support the HP StorageWorks 3000 EVA Storage System and the HP
StorageWorks 5000 EVA Storage System.
• The hardware providers do not support vdisks created under a folder that is nested within 40 or
more recursively nested folders.
• A LUN resync operation occurs when a source LUN is restored from a shadow copy created by
using one of the following techniques: Snapclone, mirrorclone, snapshot, or mirrorclone-snapshot.
In a LUN resync operation, the source LUN is the LUN used for creating a shadow copy, and a
different LUN is a LUN that is not the source LUN of the shadow copy used for resync/restore.
LUN resync is supported on all P6000 arrays except for the HP StorageWorks 3000 EVA Storage
System and the HP StorageWorks 5000 EVA Storage System.
The following resync scenarios are supported:
• Resync from a demand-allocated or fully-allocated snapshot to the source LUN
HP StorageWorks P6000 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 6.06.00 for Windows Server 2008 and
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