HP MSA 1040/2040 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers Installation Guide (765305-001, March 2014)

HP MSA 1040/2040 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers Installation Guide 5
1 Hardware providers and the CAPI Proxy
The hardware providers described in this document are used with HP MSA 1040 and HP MSA 2040
storage systems in MIcrosoft Windows Server environments. They are available for download as separate
installation files:
• A VDS hardware provider for FC and SAS storage systems.
• A VDS hardware provider for iSCSI storage systems.
• A VSS hardware provider for FC, iSCSI, and SAS storage systems.
• A CAPI Proxy that enables in-band management from host-based applications. The CAPI Proxy is
necessary to enable all of the hardware providers shown above. It should be installed on all hosts that
will run any of the hardware providers.
Versions 3.1 of the hardware providers and CAPI Proxy are sometimes identified as MSA 1040/2040 and
are sometimes identified as just MSA 2040 in filenames or directories. They are to be used only with HP
MSA 1040 and 2040 storage systems.
If any of the providers on a host are upgraded to 3.1, all other 1040/2040 VDS/VSS providers installed
on the host must be upgraded to the same version.
You can install both VDS hardware providers on the same host if your environment includes any
combination of MSA 1040 and MSA 2040 iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or SAS storage systems.
IMPORTANT: In environments with MSA 2040 combo FC/iSCSI storage systems, do not connect both
iSCSI and FC ports from the same controller to the same host. VDS Providers for the different protocols are
not supported concurrently for the same controller.
MSA 1040/2040 hardware providers and the MSA 1040/2040 CAPI Proxy do not support MSA 2000
G1, MSA2000 G2, or MSA P2000 G3 storage systems. You can install them alongside hardware
providers used with these older generations of MSA storage systems in order to support multiple storage
systems on the same host, as long as the older CAPI Proxy remains installed on the host. The CAPI
installation procedure will prompt you to choose whether to remove the older CAPI Proxy.
MSA 1040/2040 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers may also be installed alongside VDS and VSS
providers for other HP products.
Installation requirements
MSA 1040/2040 VDS Hardware Providers and the MSA 1040/2040 VSS Hardware Provider require the
following software:
• A supported operating system:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x86 Edition with Service Pack 2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition with Service Pack 2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition with Service Pack 1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Edition
• MSA 1040/2040 CAPI Proxy 3.1 or later
About VDS
Microsoft Windows Server operating systems provide enhanced services for managing storage area
networks, including Virtual Disk Service (VDS), an API that enables storage management applications to
manage heterogeneous disk arrays from a single point of control. VDS is a single storage management