HP Storage P6000 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 4.07.00 for Windows Server 2003 Release Notes (5697-1129, August 2011)

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HP Storage P6000 VDS and VSS

Hardware Providers 4.07.00 for

Windows Server 2003 Release Notes

Part Number: 5697-1129

First edition: August 2011

Summary of content (6 pages)

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HP Storage P6000 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 4.07.
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Version: 4.07.00 Description This package contains the HP Storage P6000 Hardware Providers software for Windows. In this document, Enterprise Virtual Array is abbreviated to EVA. The hardware providers software works with the Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to enable Windows applications to manage HP Storage P6000 storage systems and create shadow copies of HP P6000 storage system volumes. Update recommendation: Recommended Supersedes: 4.06.
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Enhancements VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 4.07.00 includes the following enhancement: • Supports HP Storage P6000 Command View 10.0 Prerequisites Minimum Microcode Version VCS 4.1 or later XCS 6.11 or later EVA3000 EVA4x00 EVA5000 EVA6x00 EVA8x00 x = 0, 1, or 4 • HP Storage P6000 Command View. For more information on the supported versions, see the P6000 VDS VSS Hardware Providers streams document available at the Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) website: http://www.hp.
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Installation Instructions If you are installing the hardware providers for the first time, proceed with the installation normally. If the currently installed version of the hardware provider is older than version 4.01.02, you will need to remove it manually (later versions of the hardware provider are removed automatically by the hardware provider installation program). Before removing the hardware providers, issue a net stop VSS and/or a net stop VDS command from the command line.
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• Supports VMware VM. The unmask/present operation of a LUN to the local host is not supported on a VMware VM. • VDS Hardware Provider software running on Hyper-V Guest OS and VMware VM will not provide multipath (MPIO DSM) related information and will not perform multipath operations.