Document Outline

• HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Recover Users Guide
• Contents
• Storage Mirroring Recover overview
  • Core operations
    • Mirroring
    • Replication
    • Failure monitoring and failover
    • Restoration
  • Storage Mirroring Recover workloads
    • Full-server workloads
    • Application workloads
    • Virtual workloads
    • Cluster workloads
  • Supported configurations
    • One-to-one, active/standby
    • One-to-one, active/active
    • Many-to-one
    • One-to-many
    • Chained
• Storage Mirroring Recover requirements
  • General source and target server requirements
    • Foundation Edition
    • Standard Edition
    • Advanced Edition
    • Premium Edition
    • Virtual Guest 5-Pack Edition
    • Virtual Host Standard Edition
    • Virtual Host Advanced Edition
    • Virtual Host Premium Edition
  • Full-server workload requirements
  • Application workload requirements
    • Exchange protection requirements
    • SQL protection requirements
    • BlackBerry protection requirements
    • File Server protection requirements
  • Virtual workload requirements
    • Physical or virtual to Hyper-V requirements
    • Physical or virtual to ESX requirements
    • Hyper-V to Hyper-V requirements
    • ESX to ESX requirements
  • Cluster workload requirements
  • Storage Mirroring Console requirements
• Installation
  • Installation and upgrade notes
  • Installing or upgrading Storage Mirroring Recover
  • Installing or upgrading Storage Mirroring for Virtual Infrastructure
  • Installing Storage Mirroring Recover automatically
    • Installing or upgrading automatically to a local machine
    • Installing or upgrading automatically to a remote machine
  • Configuring your cluster for GeoCluster installation
    • Configuring your Windows 2003 cluster
    • Configuring your Windows 2008 cluster
• Storage Mirroring Console
  • Starting the console
  • Getting started
    • Inserting servers manually
    • Inserting servers through Active Directory discovery
    • Inserting servers from a server configuration file
  • Managing servers
    • Viewing server details
    • Viewing server events
    • Providing server credentials
    • Managing VirtualCenter servers
  • Console options
    • Setting the frequency of console refreshes
    • Setting the console communications port
  • Other consoles
    • Replication Console
      • Logging on and off
      • Managing the Replication Console tree
        • Creating groups
        • Removing groups
        • Moving Servers
        • Inserting Servers
        • Removing Servers
        • Hiding Servers
        • Unhiding Servers
      • Sharing group and server configuration
      • Workspaces
        • Saving a workspace
        • Opening a workspace
      • Clearing maintained security credentials
    • Failover Control Center
      • Configuring communication ports
      • Configuring the console refresh rate
      • Clearing maintained security credentials
    • Full-Server Failover Manager
      • Configuring the console refresh rate
      • Configuring the level of detail to log
      • Clearing maintained security credentials
      • Configuring how servers are added to the Full-Server Failover Manager
      • Saving and reusing configuration options
    • Application Manager
      • Adding or managing servers
      • Changing Application Manager options
    • Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure console
      • Managing activation codes
      • Managing VirtualCenter servers
      • Managing ESX servers
      • Setting up an e-mail server
• Workload protection
  • Data protection
    • Establishing a connection using the automated Connection Wizard
    • Creating a replication set
    • Establishing a connection manually using the Connection Manager
    • Establishing a connection across a NAT or firewall
    • Simulating a connection
    • Data workload failover
      • Configuring failover monitoring
      • Updating shares on the target
      • Editing failover monitoring configuration
      • Removing failover monitoring configuration
    • Server settings
      • Identifying a server
      • Licensing a server
      • Configuring server startup options
      • Configuring network communication properties for a server
      • Queuing data
      • Configuring source data processing options
      • Configuring target data processing options
      • Specifying the Storage Mirroring Recover database storage files
      • Specifying file names for logging and statistics
      • Supplying credentials for script processing
      • E-mailing event messages
  • Full-server protection
    • Finding a compatible target
    • Establishing full-server protection
    • Optional full-server protection settings
      • Including and excluding data to be protected
      • Stopping services on the target when protection is enabled
      • Taking snapshots of the target
      • Configuring failover monitoring and processing
      • Mapping network configuration on the target for post-failover
      • Routing data transmissions
      • Mirroring data
      • Compressing data
    • Using NAT or firewalls with full-server workloads
      • Full-server ports
      • Microsoft Windows ports
      • Hardware ports
  • Application protection
    • Protecting an application
    • Optional application protection settings
      • Configuring failover processing
        • Configuring DNS failover
        • Configuring identity failover
      • Configuring failover monitoring
      • Taking snapshots of the target
      • Application connection settings
        • Routing data transmissions
        • Protection configuration
          • Configuring Exchange storage group protection
          • Configuring SQL database protection
          • Configuring file server protection
          • Configuring BlackBerry database protection
        • Mirroring data
      • Application advanced settings
        • Configuring the replication set
        • Configuring scripts
        • Configuring Active Directory
        • Configuring items to failover
        • Configuring default connection parameters
    • Using NAT or firewalls with application workloads
      • Application workload ports
      • Microsoft Windows ports
      • Hardware ports
    • Exchange Failover Utility
  • Virtual server protection
    • Protecting a physical or virtual server to a Hyper-V or ESX server
    • Protecting a Hyper-V server to a Hyper-V server
      • Configuring Hyper-V Pro tip integration for failover notification
    • Protecting an ESX server to an ESX server
      • Configuring ports
      • Configuring root or non-root login
      • Establishing ESX to ESX protection
      • Optional ESX protection settings
        • Scheduling protection
        • Changing the name of the protection job
        • Setting transmission options
        • E-mailing notifications
        • Updating VirtualCenter credentials
        • Configuring restart and threshold options
    • Using firewalls with virtual workloads
      • Virtual workload ports
      • Microsoft Windows ports
      • Hardware ports
  • Cluster protection
    • Protecting a standard cluster
      • Establishing your connection on Windows 2003
      • Establishing your connection on Windows 2008
    • Protecting a GeoCluster
      • Creating the GeoCluster Replicated Disk Resource on Windows 2003
      • Creating the GeoCluster Replicated Disk Resource on Windows 2008
      • Bringing the resource online
      • Taking the resource offline
      • GeoCluster resource properties
        • GeoCluster Replicated Disk properties on Windows 2003
        • GeoCluster Replicated Disk properties on Windows 2008
    • Configuring failover monitoring
  • Special configurations
    • Domain controllers
    • NetBIOS
    • WINS
      • WINS registration
      • WINS replication
    • DNS
      • Windows DNSCMD command
      • Storage Mirroring Recover DFO utility
    • Non-Microsoft DNS
    • Macintosh shares
    • NFS Shares
• Workload monitoring
  • Data workloads
    • Monitoring a data workload
      • Connection statistics
      • Connection and server display
    • Monitoring failover monitoring
  • Monitoring a full-server workload
  • Monitoring an application workload
  • Monitoring virtual workloads
    • Monitoring virtual workloads in the Storage Mirroring Console
      • Overview connection information displayed in the top pane
      • Filtering the connections displayed in the top pane
      • Detailed connection information displayed in the bottom pane
      • Connection controls available in the bottom pane
      • Viewing connection details
    • Monitoring virtual workloads in the Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Inf...
      • Overview connection information displayed in the top pane
      • Detailed connection information displayed in the bottom pane
      • Connection controls
  • Monitoring a cluster workload
    • Resolving an online pending GeoCluster Replicated Disk resource
    • GeoCluster Replicated Disk Status Resource
  • Log files
    • Viewing the log file
      • Viewing the log file through the Replication Console
      • Viewing the log file through a text editor
    • Filtering the log file
    • Configuring the properties of the log file
    • Storage Mirroring Recover log messages
  • Monitoring event messages
    • Event messages
    • E-mailing event messages
  • Statistics
    • Configuring the properties of the statistics file
    • Viewing the statistics file
    • Statistics
  • Performance Monitor
    • Monitoring Performance Monitor statistics
    • Performance Monitor statistics
  • SNMP
    • Configuring SNMP on your server
    • SNMP traps
    • SNMP statistics
  • Error codes
• Failover
  • Failing over data workloads, application workloads configured for identity fa...
  • Full-server workload failover
    • Failing over using the Full-Server Failover Manager
    • Failing over from the command line
  • Failing over application workloads configured for DNS failover
  • Virtual workload failover
    • Failing over virtual workloads in the Storage Mirroring Console
    • Failing over virtual workloads in the Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual I...
• Failback and restore
  • Data workload failback and restoration
    • Restoring then failing back
    • Failing back then restoring
  • Failing back and restoring a full-server workload
    • Full-server workload diagram
    • 1A. Preparing a new source by reinstalling Windows
    • 1B. Reusing your source
    • 2. Mirroring and replicating from the source to the original or new source an...
  • Application failback and restoration
    • Failback and restoration for applications configured for identity failover
    • Restoring then failing back applications configured for DNS failover
  • Restoring then failing back virtual workloads
• Connections
  • Data queues
    • Queuing data
  • Auto-disconnect and auto-reconnect
    • Reconnecting automatically
  • Pausing and resuming target processing
  • Blocking writing to the target paths
  • Disconnecting a connection
• Mirroring
  • Stopping, starting, pausing, or resuming mirroring
    • File difference mirror options compared
  • Mirroring automatically
  • Running scripts during mirroring
  • Removing orphan files
• Replication
  • Replication capabilities
  • Replication sets
    • Creating a replication set
    • Creating or modifying replication rules manually
    • Modifying a replication set
    • Renaming and copying a replication set
    • Calculating replication set size
    • Deleting a replication set
  • Starting replication
  • Inserting tasks during replication
• Verification
  • Verifying manually
  • Verifying on a schedule
  • Configuring the verification log
  • Verify applications on the target
    • Verifying applications on the target from the command line
• Data transmission
  • Stopping, starting, pausing, and resuming transmission
  • Scheduling data transmission
  • Limiting transmission bandwidth
  • Compressing data for transmission
• Snapshots
  • Snapshots for data workloads
    • Snapshot states
    • Automatic snapshots
    • Scheduling snapshots
    • Taking snapshots manually
  • Managing full-server and application snapshots
• Recommended optimizations
  • Planning
  • Installation
  • General optimizations
    • Performance optimizations
    • General manageability
    • Anti-virus protection
    • Hardware configurations
  • Application workloads
    • General applications
    • Exchange
    • SQL
  • Cluster workloads
• Security
  • Security credentials
  • Adding users to the security groups
  • Changing the account used to run the Storage Mirroring service
• Evaluations
  • Evaluating data protection
    • Establishing a connection
    • Monitoring the activity and completion of the initial mirror
    • Changing data to cause replication
    • Verifying the data changes on the target
    • Testing your target data
    • Configuring failover monitoring
    • Monitoring failover
    • Simulating a failure
    • Simulating data changes after failover
    • Initiating failback
    • Restoring your data
  • Evaluating full-server protection
    • Establishing full-server protection
    • Monitoring the activity and completion of the initial mirror
    • Changing data to cause replication and verifying the data changes
    • Simulating a failure
    • Starting failover
• Index