HP StorageWorks P9000 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 5.02.00 for Windows Server 2003 Release Notes (T1634-96098, December 2010)

NOTE:

This may cause a failure if the multipath software tries to failover I/O from one vendor type HBA

to another vendor type HBA. HP recommends using only like vendor HBAs in a server to avoid

this potential issue.

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.