Storsimple and VSS Backup

[Luca82]

Could someone help me to understand if Microsoft Storsimple is a VSS Provider?
Thank you

[veremin]

Can you elaborate on your question? Are you asking whether there is a hardware provider available for the said device? What particular model are you willing to leverage?

[Luca82]

Yes, sure, I mean VSS HW Provider, in order to use a Off Host Backup Proxy! The model is StorSimple 8000 (but I would like if also 7000 and 5000 are VSS HW Provider).
I can't find this information on Microsoft Documentation.

[Vitaliy S.]

Do you have any software coming with this storage? The easiest way to check if you have any VSS providers installed for this device is to run these commands:

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vssadmin list writers 
vssadmin list providers