HP StorageWorks EVA Hardware Providers administration guide Windows 2003 (T1634-96052, February 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 suc cessful installation of the HP H WPs is to make sure they are

listed in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel in Windows. To see the list of installed

programs, click Windows Sta rt,clickSettings,clickControl Pan el, and double-click

Add/Remove Programs.

You can also check that the hpEVA VSS H ardware Provider is running by making sure it

is listed when you t ype the following at the command 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 subsystem” commands to verify the HP HWP is working properly.

DiskRaid 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 co

mmands:

DISKRAID> List Provider

Prov ###

Name Version

-------

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

* Prov 0

hpEVA VDS Hardware Provider 3.2.0.0

DISKRAID> list subsystem

Subsys ### Name Status Health

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

Subs

ys 0 HP EVA (SN# 12345) Online Healthy

Checking VSS volume shadow copying

Tes

ting 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.

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