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Microsoft Services, Virtual Disk Service, Volume Shadow-Copy Service

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Microsoft Services Virtual Disk Service The Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is supported on your RAID storage array. Microsoft VDS is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks and other storage hardware, including creating virtual disks on those physical disks. Volume Shadow-Copy Service The Microsoft Volume Shadow-copy Service (VSS) is a storage management interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. VSS enables your storage array to interact with third-party applications that use the VSS Application Programming Interface. Virtual disks that will be used as source virtual disks for VSS snapshots should have names no longer than 16 characters. The VSS hardware provider uses the source virtual disk name as a prefix for the snapshot and repository virtual disk names. The resulting snapshot and repository names will be too long if the source virtual disk name exceeds 16 characters. For more information on VDS and VSS, see www.microsoft.com. Disk Groups and Virtual Disks 67

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Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
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Microsoft Services
Virtual Disk Service
The Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is supported on your RAID storage
array. Microsoft VDS is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs)
that provides a single interface for managing disks and other storage
hardware, including creating virtual disks on those physical disks.
Volume Shadow-Copy Service
The Microsoft Volume Shadow-copy Service (VSS) is a storage management
interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. VSS enables your storage
array to interact with third-party applications that use the VSS Application
Programming Interface.
Virtual disks that will be used as source virtual disks for VSS snapshots should
have names no longer than 16 characters. The VSS hardware provider uses the
source virtual disk name as a prefix for the snapshot and repository virtual
disk names. The resulting snapshot and repository names will be too long if
the source virtual disk name exceeds 16 characters.
For more information on VDS and VSS, see
www.microsoft.com
.