Verifying installation
To verify installation, perform the following tests. If you have any trouble with installation or with verifying installation, see “Chapter 4 Troubleshooting” in this guide.
Checking the list of programs
A simple way to verify successful installation of the HP HWPs is to make sure they are listed in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel in Windows. To see the list of installed programs, click Windows Start, click Settings, click Control Panel, and
You can also check that the hpEVA VSS Hardware Provider is running by making sure it is listed when you type the following at the command line:
vssadm list providers
Checking VDS disk management using DiskRaid
You can install and run the Microsoft DiskRaid command line interface and use the “list provider” and “list subsystem” commands to verify the HP HWP is working properly. DiskRaid comes with the Windows 2003 Resource Kit and requires the HP VDS HWP in order to work with the HP disk array. The example output below shows the use of these commands:
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| * Prov 0 | HPEVA VDS Hardware Provider | 4.01.00 |
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| Subsys | 0 | HP EVA | (SN# 12345) | Online | Healthy | |
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Checking VSS volume shadow copying
Testing the HP VSS HWP requires a third party application that can work with VSS, the HP VSS HWP, and the disk array to create hardware volume shadow copies. One such program is Microsoft’s vshadow utility, which comes with the VSS Software Developer’s Kit.
Test the HWP installation by making a shadow copy of the array volumes containing production data. Then check whether a copy of the production data appears on the snapclone volumes of the array. If the copy is not successful, see “Chapter 4 Troubleshooting.”
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