HP MSA 2040 HP MSA 2040 VDS and VSSHardware Providers Installation Guide (7239 - Page 13

2 Installing the MSA 2040 VSS Hardware Provider This package includes a VSS Hardware Provider, VDS Hardware Provider, and the CAPI Proxy, which must be installed to enable support for any of the hardware providers. The CAPI Proxy enables in-band management from host-based applications and must be installed on all hosts running MSA 2040 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers. If any component on a system is upgraded to 3.0.x, all other P2040 VDS/VSS components that are installed on the host must be upgraded to the same version. Microsoft Windows Server operating systems provide enhanced services for managing storage area networks, including Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). VSS, with its standard set of extensible APIs, provides the backup infrastructure for Windows Server, as well as a mechanism for creating consistent point-in-time copies of data known as shadow copies. VSS provides interfaces to ensure that volume shadow copies are in a consistent state. The MSA 2040 VSS Hardware Provider installs on a server running Windows Server and enables VSS to create hardware-resident shadow copies on any array attached to the server. With the MSA 2040 VSS Hardware Provider and VSS, you can create a shadow copy of the source data volume on one server and then import the shadow copy onto another server (or back to the same server). This hardware provider does not include user interfaces or standalone functionality. Instead it enables other applications to manage MSA2040 products. VShadow.exe and DiskShadow.exe are useful command-line tools for creating, deleting, querying, and managing shadow copies in a Microsoft Windows environment. They are available from Microsoft as part of a large software developers' software toolkit. Third party developers have extracted and redistributed it on the Internet. MSA 2040 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers may be installed concurrently with VSS and VDS Providers for other HP products. What's New in this Release Versions 3.0 of the VDS/VSS Hardware Providers and CAPI Proxy are to be used only with HP MSA2040 storage systems. They do not support MSA2000 G1, MSA2000 G2, or MSA P2000 G3 storage systems, but may be installed side-by-side with software released for these older generations of MSA storage systems in order to support multiple generations of the product on the same host. Supported Features The MSA 2040 VSS Hardware Provider supports the following features supported by the Windows VSS subsystem: • Creating shadow copies/snapshots • Exporting shadow copies/snapshots: prepare for use in another Windows Server system • Importing snapshots: prepare for local use after export from another Windows Server system • Determining when snapshots can be deleted and deleting them • Reverting snapshots using the DiskShadow resync subcommand (Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012) Installation Requirements The MSA 2040 VSS Hardware Provider requires 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 • MSA 2040 CAPI Proxy 3.0 or later HP MSA 2040 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers Installation Guide 13