HP StorageWorks EVA VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 7.02.00 for Windows 2008 R2 Release Notes

• Resync from a fractured mirrorclone to the source LUN

• Resync from a demand-allocated or fully-allocated snapshot of a mirrorclone to the mirrorclone

source LUN

• Resync from a snapclone to the source LUN

• Resync from a snapclone to a different LUN

The following resync scenarios are not supported:

• Resync from a snapshot to a different LUN

• Resync from a fractured mirrorclone to a different LUN

• Resync from a snapshot of a mirrorclone to a different LUN

NOTE:

LUN resync is supported only on Windows 2008 R2.

Creating a snapshot immediately after a LUN resync operation will fail if you do not restart

the VSS service after the resync operation. To restart the VSS service, run the commands Net

stop VSS and Net start VSS or select the Restart option for the VSS service listed in the

service control manager snap-in.

• After a LUN shrink operation using the VDS hardware provider, you must perform the Subsystem

Renumerate operation to update the LUN properties.

• In virtual machines either on Hyper-V server or VMWare ESX server:

• Reboot your system before upgrading VDS hardware provider in Windows Server 2003 and

Windows Server 2008

• If you attempt to remove and then install the same version of VDS hardware provider, ensure

that you reboot the system before installation

• VSS Hardware Provider

• Supports VMware VM (Shadow Copy creation only)

• Supports Hyper-V Host and Guest O/S (Guest O/S - Shadow Copy creation only)

NOTE:

For VMware and Hyper-v Guest Operating systems, only Raw Device Mapping (RDM) disks

are supported.

• VDS Hardware Provider

• Supports Hyper-V Host and Guest O/S. The unmask/present operation of a LUN to the local

host is not supported on a Hyper-V guest OS.

• 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.