HP Storage P6000 VDS and VSS
Hardware Providers 4.07.00 for
Windows Server 2003 Release Notes
Part Number: 5697-1129
First edition: August 2011
Legal and notice information
© Copyright 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Version: 4.07.00
Description
This package contains the HP Storage P6000 Hardware Providers software for Windows. In this
document, Enterprise Virtual Array is abbreviated to EVA.
The hardware providers software works with the Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) and Microsoft
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to enable Windows applications to manage HP Storage P6000
storage systems and create shadow copies of HP P6000 storage system volumes.
Update recommendation: Recommended
Supersedes: 4.06.00
Product models
• HP Storage P6000 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers for Windows Server 2003 x86
• HP Storage P6000 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers for Windows Server 2003 x64
• HP Storage P6000 VDS and VSS Hardware Providers for Windows Server 2003 IA64
Devices supported
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HP Storage 3000 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 5000 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 4000 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 4100 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 4400 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 6000 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 6100 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 6400 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 8000 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 8100 EVA Storage System
HP Storage 8400 EVA Storage System
HP Storage P6300 EVA Storage System
HP Storage P6500 EVA Storage System
Storport HBA drivers only
Operating systems
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard and Enterprise Edition
Languages
English
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Enhancements
VDS and VSS Hardware Providers 4.07.00 includes the following enhancement:
• Supports HP Storage P6000 Command View 10.0
Prerequisites
Minimum Microcode Version
VCS 4.1 or later
XCS 6.11 or later
EVA3000
EVA4x00
EVA5000
EVA6x00
EVA8x00
x = 0, 1, or 4
• HP Storage P6000 Command View. For more information on the supported versions, see the
P6000 VDS VSS Hardware Providers streams document available at the Single Point of Connectivity
Knowledge (SPOCK) website:
http://www.hp.com/storage/spock
You must sign up for an HP Passport to enable access. Once access is enabled, select P6000 Array
Software in the left menu.
• For VSS: HP Storage Business Copy P6000
• Microsoft OS quick fixes:
KB940041
KB949002
KB949391
KB950903
KB940467 (KB940467 requires Smartstart 7.8 release for the latest CISS driver)
In configurations with HP Application Recovery Manager and HP Data Protector software:
• KB898790 Volume Mount Point hotfix
• KB903650 Maintenance mode fix
• KB923424 Cluster fix
• Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
To install and configure the HP P6000 VSS hardware provider on cluster nodes, you must have
installed the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, and it must be running. Some applications, such as in Microsoft Exchange and SQL clusters, required a MSDTC cluster resource to be
created as part of the application setup. In this case no additional steps are required to install the
HP P6000 VSS hardware provider. To install the HP P6000 VSS hardware provider on application
server cluster nodes that do not already have MSDTC installed and running, see Microsoft TechNet
article, "How to Install the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator in a Windows Server
2003 Server Cluster." The article is located at the following URL: http://support.microsoft.com/
kb/301600.
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Installation Instructions
If you are installing the hardware providers for the first time, proceed with the installation normally.
If the currently installed version of the hardware provider is older than version 4.01.02, you will need
to remove it manually (later versions of the hardware provider are removed automatically by the
hardware provider installation program). Before removing the hardware providers, issue a net stop
VSS and/or a net stop VDS command from the command line.
There are three installers for the hardware providers:
• HP_Storage_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_P6000_v4_07_00_x86.exe
• HP_Storage_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_P6000_v4_07_00_x64.exe
• HP_Storage_VDS_VSS_Hardware_Provider_P6000_v4_07_00_ia64.exe
For installation instructions see the HP Storage Hardware Providers for VDS/VSS installation guide
(5697-0804, February 2011). The guide is included with the installation software package and
provides detailed installation and configuration instructions.
Compatibility/Interoperability
• Only one dedicated Command View workstation is supported within the SAN configuration which
manages VDS/VSS storage resources.
• If the P6000 VSS hardware provider and P6000 Command View are present on the same server,
do not include the drive letter or mount point where the P6000 Command View software is located
as part of a shadow copy volume set. For example, if the P6000 VSS hardware provider and
P6000 Command View are on drive D, do not include drive D with an P6000 LUN in a shadow
copy set. Doing so causes the P6000 VSS hardware provider to time out due to conflict with
Command View logging on this drive.
• Mirrorclones are supported with microcode version XCS 6.11 or later.
• Version 4.04.00 of the HP Storage Enterprise Virtual Array Hardware Providers software is the
last version that will support the HP Storage 3000 EVA Storage System and the HP Storage 5000
EVA Storage System.
• The hardware providers do not support vdisks created under a folder that is nested within 40 or
more recursively nested folders.
• After a LUN shrink operation using the VDS hardware provider, you must perform the Subsystem
Renumerate operation to update the LUN properties.
• VSS Hardware Provider
• Supports VMware VM (Shadow Copy creation only).
• Supports Hyper-V Host and Guest O/S (Guest O/S - Shadow Copy creation only).
NOTE:
For VMware and Hyper-v Guest Operating systems, only Raw Device Mapping (RDM) disks
are supported.
• 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.
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• 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.
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