HP StorageWorks EVA Hardware Providers administration guide Windows 2003 (T1634-96054, August 2006)

Verifying installation

To verify installation, perform the following tests. If you have any trouble with installation or with verifying

installation, see “Chapter 4 Troubleshooting” in this guide.

Checking the list of programs

A simple way to verify successful installation of the H P HW Ps is to m ake sure they are listed in the

Add/Remove Programs Control Panel in Windows. To see the list of installed pro grams, click Windows

Start,clickSettings,clickControl Panel, and double-click Add/Remove Programs.

You can also check that the hpEVA VSS Hardwa re Provider is running by making sure it is listed when

you t ype the following at the c ommand line:

vssadm list providers

Checking VDS disk management using DiskRaid

You can install and run the Microsoft DiskRaid command line interface and use the “list provider” and

“list sub

system” com m a nds to verify the HP HWP is working properly. D iskRaid comes with the Windows

2003 Resource Kit and requires the HP VDS HWP in order to work with the HP disk array. The example

output below shows the use of these com m ands:

DISKRAID> List Provider

Prov ### Name Version

-------- --------------------------------------------- ----------

* Prov 0 HPEVA VDS Hardware Provider 4.01.00

DISKRAI

D> list subsystem

Subsys ### Name Status Health

---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ----------

Subsys 0 HP EVA (SN# 12345) Online Healthy

Checking VSS volume shadow copyi ng

Testing the HP VSS HWP requires a third party application that can work with VSS, the HP VSS HWP,

and the disk array to create hardware volume shadow copies. One such program is Microsoft’s vshadow

utility, which comes with the VSS Software D eveloper’s Kit.

Test t

he HWP installation by making a shadow copy of the array volumes containing production data.

Then

check whether a copy of the production data appears on the snapclone volumes of the a rray. If the

copyisnotsuccessful,see“Chapter4Troubleshooting.”

HP StorageWorks EVA Hardware Providers administration guide