HP Storage Hardware Providers VDS/VSS Installation Guide (5697-1131, August 2011)

Contents
1 Overview of HP Storage hardware providers ......................................... 6
Windows Disk Management ........................................................................................................ 6
Management applications ........................................................................................................... 7
Microsoft command-line utilities .................................................................................................... 7
Microsoft Virtual Disk Service ....................................................................................................... 7
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service ........................................................................................ 7
Windows software providers .................................................................................................. 7
HP VDS and VSS hardware providers ............................................................................................ 8
HP disk arrays ............................................................................................................................ 8
2 Installing HP hardware providers for HP P6000 disk arrays ..................... 9
Preparing to install HP P6000 hardware providers .......................................................................... 9
HP P6000 hardware provider configuration ............................................................................. 9
Hardware ................................................................................................................... 10
Notes on installing HP P6000 hardware providers .................................................................. 11
HP P6000 hardware provider preparation procedures ............................................................ 11
Preparing the P6000 Command View management server ................................................ 11
Preparing the VDS/VSS server ....................................................................................... 11
Preparing additional servers .......................................................................................... 12
Preparing the P6000 disk array ..................................................................................... 12
Installing hardware providers for HP P6000 disk arrays ................................................................. 13
Using the HP P6000 VDS configuration utility ........................................................................ 15
Using the HP P6000 VSS configuration utility ......................................................................... 17
Configuring snapclones ....................................................................................................... 19
Configuring a mirrorclone-snapshot ...................................................................................... 20
Configuring mirrorclones ..................................................................................................... 21
Removing the HP P6000 hardware providers ......................................................................... 22
Removing HP P6000 hardware providers using Windows Control Panel .............................. 22
Removing HP P6000 hardware providers using Windows Server Core ................................ 22
3 Installing HP hardware providers for HP P9000 disk arrays ................... 25
Preparing to install HP P9000 hardware providers ........................................................................ 25
Notes on installing HP P9000 hardware providers .................................................................. 27
HP P9000 hardware provider preparation procedures ........................................................... 28
Preparing the VDS/VSS servers ..................................................................................... 28
Preparing additional servers .......................................................................................... 28
Preparing the disk array ............................................................................................... 28
Configuring LUNs ........................................................................................................ 29
Preparing the disk array for VSS .................................................................................... 29
Installing hardware providers for HP P9000 disk arrays ................................................................. 30
Installing the RAID Manager Library ..................................................................................... 30
Installing the HP hardware providers on Windows Server 2003/2008 ...................................... 32
Configuring VDS and VSS ................................................................................................... 33
Enabling auto discovery ............................................................................................... 34
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