Installer Updates

The toolkit suite installer contains two product installation packages:
  • The Device Specific Manager (DSM) Kernel Driver package installs the DSM for MPIO.
  • The toolkit suite installer installs all toolkit components.

For volume provisioning, before installing HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows, determine how the host will connect to targets on your array, using either iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC).

During installation, you choose the components you want to install. The HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows installer automatically detects whether the Microsoft iSCSI initiator service is running on the host to determine the connection environment. By default, a custom setup enables installation of only those features required for a Fibre Channel environment.

The installer will also prompt you to provide the credentials for the HPE Storage group. You need to provide this information if you want to use VSS.

NOTE: If you do not provide the array credentials, all application-synchronized snapshot creation operations will fail.

PowerShell cmdlets are installed by default. For information about cmdlets usage, see HPE Storage Toolkit PowerShell Cmdlets.

The Connection Service (CS) works only with iSCSI connections. (The Connection Manager for iSCSI is not selected by default if the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service is not running.) The Device-Specific Module (DSM) for MPIO is needed for both iSCSI and FC connections.

NOTE: The DSM records runtime information in event log files (including the system event log) which are gathered by the Diagnostic Utility. These logs are used for system diagnosis only by Support, if needed, for troubleshooting purposes. For more information, see HPE Storage Diagnostic Tools.