Platespin Migrate 8 – block based agent manual installation

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How to install Block based component manually on source server

There are 2 components needed for the install:

  1. PsMonInstall.exe
  2. the psmon driver files – psmon.sys and psmon.inf

PsMonInstall.exe you can download from here

The psmon driver files are found in the 1.package in C:Program FilesPlateSpin Portability Suite ServerPackagesC221392A-D69A-417C-B359-EBEBEFBBFBA0. Copy this 1.package to another location then extract the files. Depending on the OS type (64bit or 32bit) use the inf and sys files needed.

Procedure:

  1. On the server that the driver needs to be installed put the PsMonInstall.exe and driver files psmon.sys and psmon.inf in the same folder
  2. Open a command prompt and run the following:
    PsMonInstall.exe /inf “C:utilsVSSpsmon.inf” /install psmon /add

* you can use the devcon utility to see if the driver has installed from a commandline:

devcon.exe stack storagevolume

You can find Devcon.exe from in the uninstallvssbb.zip file from the following kB  http://support.platespin.com/kb2/article.aspx?id=21215

Result will show you psmon has been installed as a filter driver:

C:utilsVSS>C:utilsUninstallVSSBBUninstallVSSBBdevcon.exe stack storagevolume

STORAGEVOLUME1&30A96598&0&SIGNATURE11781178OFFSET7E00LENGTH63F3DFE00
Name: Generic volume
Setup Class: {71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F} Volume
Class upper filters:
ExtMirr
Upper filters:
psmon
Controlling service:
volsnap
1 matching device(s) found.
After the driver install has completed you MUST reboot the system

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Artur Krzywdzinski

Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).

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