Windows Integration

HPE Storage Windows integration is a suite installation package that contains the full HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows installation package. The package provides HPE Storage Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Hyper-V, and VMware virtual volumes (VVols), iSCSI and Fibre Channel connection management, and HPE Setup Manager management for your array in a Windows server environment. The installation package installs the Setup Manager, the Connection Manager for iSCSI and its related connection service, the HPE Storage VSS Requestor/VSS Hardware Provider, the Device-Specific Module (DSM) for MPIO, the Diagnostic Utility (automatically installed), and the Microsoft Windows PowerShell module.

The full suite can be installed on servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 or later.

The DSM for MPIO is part of the Suite Installer package.

Setup Manager makes it easier to find and set up new, uninitialized storage arrays. Setup Manager can be installed on Windows clients running Windows 7 or later.

The built-in HPE Storage VSS integration works with iSCSI or Fibre Channel protocols and enables arrays to interact with Microsoft VSS on a Windows host to take application-consistent snapshots. If you are using the HPE vCenter Plugin, you can also use HPE Storage VSS to take application-consistent snapshots of vVols containing SQL and Exchange application data. The restore implementation in VSS allows third-party backup software to use the HPE Storage-provided restore functionality for backup and recovery workflows.

The Connection Service (CS; for iSCSI only) manages the optimal number of connections from a Windows host to any given volume that resides on an array.

The Hotfix Monitor service monitors the presence of required Windows storage stack hotfixes.

The Windows PowerShell Module displays connected volumes and details about them. The Application Aware Data Management cmdlets allow you to view the configuration; connect or disconnect volumes to or from the local host; clone volumes, volume collections, and snapshot collections; and remove volumes from the array.