Storage Management Provider Development

Question

With the reference of the msdn web page
SMP development
I generated a skeletal code for my SMP provider using the 3 mandatory classes: StorageProvider, StorageSubSystem and VirtualDisk.
I copied all the methods for all 3 classes from the MOF's of MSFT_StorageProvider, MSFT_StorageSubSystem and MSFT_VirtualDisk, and also wrote some of my own methods. Registered the provider into the registry and I can see my provider in
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wbem\CIMOM\SecuredHostProviders with a value as root\Microsoft\Windows\Storage\Providers_v2:__Win32Provider.Name="SMP_PROVIDER"
I tried to test the provider by writing CIM cmdlets as below:
$c = Get-CimClass -Namespace root\Microsoft\Windows\Storage\Providers_v2 -ClassName My_StorageProvider
$Arguments = @{
    ComputerName = 'localhost';
    Credential = 'Password';
Invoke-CimMethod -Verbose -CimClass $c -MethodName RegisterSubsystem -Arguments $Arguments
However, I am persistently getting a Invalid method parameter(s) error or Provider load failure while executing any of the methods. Debugging the same with VS2012/Wbemtest/EventViewer seems to show no specific causes of error. I tried to attach the smp provider
to the host process(WmiPrvSE.exe) but it exits without getting a breakpoint hit and there seems to be no way to debug it.
I have not yet written any business logic, all methods are empty and I have just done a MI_Context_PostResult(context, MI_RESULT_OK); at end of each method.
Also, when I have my smp provider ready, how will I test it?
Are there any specific cmdlets or utilities to test the provider (VDS had disk manager but smp has only Powershell/WMI/Disk raid) as per this msdn page VDS
transitioning to SMP
Is the cmdlets  list here to be used while testing? For example, Get-StorageProvider should display my registered provider or something similar to that.
I didn't find any documentation which explains the method to test the SMP providers. Any help or redirection to the appropriate resource(s) would be really appreciated.
P.S. I am using WMIv2 for writing the SMP provider and Windows SDK 8.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2
Thanks
prathamesh

Answer 1

Hi Prathamesh,
Maybe you can get help within the following forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home
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