Evaluating full-server protection – HP Storage Mirroring Software User Manual

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Evaluations

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Evaluating full-server protection

The following evaluation procedure has five tasks containing step-by-step instructions
for evaluating the full-server protection functionality of Storage Mirroring Recover.

Before starting this evaluation procedure, make sure you have reviewed the

server

requirements

and that you have

installed the software

on both the source and target.

Also, make sure that

the target you select is compatible to stand-in as the source

.

Note: For the evaluation, you should install in a test environment. Do no use actual

production servers because you will be forcing a failure during the evaluation.

This evaluation consists of the following tasks.

1.

Establishing full-server protection

2.

Monitoring the activity and completion of the initial mirror

3.

Changing data to cause replication and verifying the data changes

4.

Simulating a failure

5.

Starting failover

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