HP StorageWorks EVA VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 4.04.00 for Windows Server 2003 release notes (T1634-96085, November 2009)

• Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
To install and configure the HP EVA VSS hardware provider on cluster nodes, you must have in-
stalled the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, and it must be running. Some applications,
such as in Microsoft Exchange and SQL clusters, required a MSDTC cluster resource to be created
as part of the application setup. In this case no additional steps are required to install the HP EVA
VSS hardware provider. To install the HP EVA VSS hardware provider on application server cluster
nodes that do not already have MSDTC installed and running, see Microsoft TechNet article,
"How to Install the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator in a Windows Server 2003
Server Cluster." The article is located at the following URL: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/
301600.
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.
There are three installers for the hardware providers:
• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_for_EVA_v4.04.00_x86.exe
• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_for_EVA_v4.04.00_x64.exe
• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_for_EVA_v4.04.00_ia64.exe
For installation instructions see the HP StorageWorks Hardware Providers for VDS/VSS installation
guide (T1634-96088, October 2009). 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 EVA 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 EVA VSS hardware provider and Command
View EVA are on drive D, do not include drive D with an EVA LUN in a shadow copy set. Doing
so causes the EVA 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 4.04.00 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.
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