Starting The Gui Tool - HP XP User Manual

Specify ON or OFF with the check box. By default it is ON.
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Quick mode for VSS backup — This option is to specify Quick Mode.
Specify whether to use Quick Mode when the BC pair is quiescent during the backup
process if VSS Provider is using the Business Copy function.
Specify ON or OFF with the check box. By default it is ON.
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Register Server — Register vCenter Server in VSS Provider
Set it when you use the VMware Guest to Guest Backup (FC) function.
To indicate the configuration change of such as RDM to ESXi through vCenter Server,
register the vCenter Server information in VSS Provider.
Input IP address of vCenter Server as well as user name and password of Windows logon
account. It is the account specified when connecting to the vCenter Server installed server
using the remote desktop connection.

Starting the GUI tool

Start the GUI tools using the following procedures.
In the case of Windows2008R2
From the Windows Start button, navigate to:
All Programs -> HP -> VSS Hardware Provider -> VSS Hardware Provider configuration
In the case of Windows2012/Windows2012 R2
From the Windows Start button, navigate to:
Right click -> All Applications-> HP -> VSS Hardware Provider configuration
NOTE: In the case of the Server Core environment, press [ctrl]+[shift]+[esc] at the same
time and specify file>the making of the new task and execute cmd.exe to launch the command
prompt.
Go to the installation folder of VSS Provider by using the cd command and execute
hishadowcfg.exe.
When you start the GUI tool, the configuration file is read and it is connected to the disk array
system corresponding to the serial numbers (for the XP P9500/XP7) described in the configuration
file.
NOTE: The XP P9500/XP7 require some time for information acquisition and may wait in the
same status for a while.
The Loading all devices information ... please wait message is displayed on
Storages window until the connection to a disk array system is completed.
When the connection to the disk array systems is completed, the detected storage information
is displayed in the Storages window.
Select the disk array system from Storages window to perform Business Copy operation, Snapshot
operation, and Options setting.
Click Refresh to acquire the latest information of the disk array systems.
54 Using the VSS Provider GUI
ON: Perform a backup using the Snapshot function.
OFF: Perform a backup using the Business Copy function
ON: Quick mode
OFF: Normal mode (Quick mode disabled)