HP Storage Mirroring Software - Manual (Page 265)

Workload protection Page 264 of 677
l
Select the datastore on the target ESX server—Select one of the volumes
from the list to indicate where on the target you want to store the new virtual
server when it is created. The target volume must have enough Free Space
to store the source data. The minimum size is noted at the bottom of the
page.
l
Use pre-existing virtual disks—You can reuse an existing virtual disk on
your ESX target, rather than having Storage Mirroring Recover create a
virtual disk for you. This saves time by skipping the virtual disk creation steps
and performing a difference mirror instead of a full mirror. In order to use a
pre-existing virtual disk, it must be a valid VMware virtual disk. It cannot be
attached to any other virtual machine, and the virtual disk size cannot be
changed.
Because Storage Mirroring Recover will skip the virtual disk creation steps
when using a pre-existing disk, Storage Mirroring Recover will instead copy
your existing virtual disk to the default VMware new virtual machine location.
Therefore, it is important that you do not place your existing virtual disk in the
new folder location that VMware will create. Put the pre-existing virtual disk
in a temporary location on the target. Specify this temporary location for
Enter the folder name on the selected datastore which has pre-existing
virtual disks.