Configuration

You can configure the IBM® Storage Support for Microsoft VSS and VDS service in a physical environment or in a VMware environment.

Configuring in a physical environment
You can configure the IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS and VDS in a physical environment to use either Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI.
Configuring in a VMware environment
You can configure the IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS and VDS in a VMware environment, as described in the following topics.
Configuring for Microsoft Hyper-V
With IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS and VDS, you can take shadow copies in a Microsoft Hyper-V guest OS.
Configuring for dynamic target volume allocation
You can configure IBM Storage Support for Microsoft product to dynamically create target volumes for backup use for IBM Storwize® Family and DS8000® storage systems.

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