Introduction

The IBM® Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is a software module that runs as a service on Microsoft Windows Server and automatically creates snapshots of Windows-based applications.

The module uses the Microsoft Windows Server VSS framework for its management interface, and the snapshot data is stored and maintained on integrated DS8000 and Storwize Family storage systems. Part of the framework is the VSS provider, a component that creates and manages the shadow copies.