HP StorageWorks EVA VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 6.04.00 for Windows Server 2008 R2 release notes (T1634-96087, November 2009)

• VSS

• Multiple Import of Shadow Copies

• LUN Resync. For compatibility information, see “Compatiblity/interoperability” on page 5.

• Business Copy of Continuous Access Volume

• Auto-recovery and Transactional File System (TxF) Recovery

• VDS/VSS 3.0 Framework

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

• VMware VM (Shadow Copy creation only)

• VDS

• VDS/VSS 3.0 Framework

• RAID6 through VDS/VSS 3.0 Framework

• 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.

• VMware VM. The unmask/present operation of a LUN to the local host is not supported on a

VMware VM.

Fixes

None

Prerequisites

Minimum Microcode Version

XCS 6.11 or laterVCS 4.1 or later

EVA4x00EVA3000

EVA6x00EVA5000

EVA8x00

x = 0, 1, or 4

• HP StorageWorks Command View EVA 9.0 or later

• For VSS: HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA

Installation Instructions

The installer will automatically upgrade previous installations of the hardware provider software to

the latest version.

There are two installers for the hardware providers:

• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_for_EVA_v6.04.00_x64.exe

• HP_StorageWorks_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_for_EVA_v6.04.00_ia64.exe