Document Outline

• Introduction
  • Intended audience
  • Conventions used in this guide
  • Resources
• Storage Mirroring Overview
  • Storage Mirroring operations
    • Mirroring
    • Replication
    • Failure monitoring and failover
    • Restoration
  • Storage Mirroring add-ons and features
    • Storage Mirroring Application Manager
    • Server Recovery Option
    • Full-Server Failover Option
    • Storage Mirroring Reporting Center
    • Storage Mirroring Enterprise Install Console
    • Storage Mirroring for VMware Infrastructure
  • Sample configurations
    • One-to-one, active/standby
    • One-to-one, active/active
    • Many-to-one
    • One-to-many
    • Chained
    • Single server
    • Virtual systems
• Installation
  • System Requirements
  • Installation and upgrade notes
  • Installing or upgrading Storage Mirroring
  • Installing or upgrading Storage Mirroring automatically
  • Uninstalling Storage Mirroring
  • Uninstalling Storage Mirroring automatically
• Clients
  • Management Console
    • Logging on and off of Storage Mirroring
    • Managing the Management Console Tree
      • Groups
      • Servers
      • Sharing group and server configuration
  • Storage Mirroring workspaces
    • Saving a workspace
    • Opening a workspace
  • Failover Control Center
    • Configuring communication ports
    • Configuring refresh rate
    • Clearing maintained security credentials
  • Recovery Manager
    • Saving and reusing configuration options
  • Full-Server Failover Manager
    • Configuring Full-Server Failover Manager options
    • Saving and reusing configuration options
• Getting Started
• Providing Disaster Recovery for an Entire Server
  • Protecting an entire server
  • Recovering an entire server
  • Configuring optional settings
  • Managing your Server Recovery Option snapshots
  • Running Server Recovery Option from a command line
• Providing High Availability for an Entire Server
  • Finding a compatible target
  • Configuring high availability for an entire server
  • Configuring optional settings
  • Monitoring high availability for an entire server
  • Starting failover
  • Viewing the log
  • Managing your Full-Server Failover snapshots
  • Running Full-Server Failover from a command line
• Protecting Specific Data Using the Connection Wizard
• Protecting Specific Data Using the Connection Manager
  • Creating a replication set
  • Establishing the connection
• Protecting Data in a Cluster Environment
  • Cluster configurations
  • Establishing the connection
  • Understanding the Source Connection Resource
• Protecting Data Across a NAT or Firewall
  • Verifying the Storage Mirroring port settings
  • Configuring the hardware
  • Inserting the servers in the Management Console
  • Establishing the connection
• Simulating a connection
  • Gathering system information
  • Creating a replication set
  • Establishing the simulated connection
• Managing Replication Sets
  • Replication capabilities
  • Creating or modifying replication set rules manually
  • Modifying a replication set
  • Renaming and copying a replication set
  • Deleting a replication set
  • Calculating replication set size
• Managing Connections
  • Monitoring connections
  • Monitoring the message window
  • Controlling mirroring
  • Controlling an automatic mirror
  • Configuring customized mirroring scripts
  • Starting replication
  • Configuring compression
  • Configuring and removing orphan files
  • Verifying your data
    • Manual verification
    • Scheduled verification
    • Verification log
    • Working with Storage Mirroring snapshots
    • Understanding When to Take a Snapshot
    • Automatic Snapshots
    • Scheduled Snapshots
    • Manual Snapshots
  • Queuing Storage Mirroring data
    • Understanding queuing
    • Configuring queuing
    • Configuring automatic reconnections
  • Blocking target paths
  • Disconnecting a connection
• Managing Data Transmission
  • Controlling transmission manually
  • Controlling a target manually
  • Scheduling transmission criteria
  • Setting bandwidth limitations
• Failover
  • Configuration requirements
    • All environments
    • Domain controllers
    • Routers
    • Cluster configurations
    • WINS
    • DNS
    • Macintosh shares
    • NFS shares
  • Configuring failover
  • Editing failover configuration
  • Removing failover configuration
  • Monitoring failover
  • Updating shares manually
  • Testing failover
  • Failover manual intervention
• Restoration for Disaster Recovery
• Restoration and Failback for High Availability
  • Restoration then failback
  • Failback then restoration
• Monitoring Tools
  • Log Files
    • Viewing the log files
    • Using LogViewer
    • Log messages
  • Windows Event Viewer
  • DTStat
    • Configuring the statistics file
    • Running DTStat from the command prompt
    • DTStat statistics
  • Windows Performance Monitor
  • SNMP
    • Configuring SNMP
    • SNMP statistics
    • SNMP traps
• Server Settings
  • General
  • Licensing
  • Setup
  • Network
  • Queue
  • Source
  • Target
  • Database
  • Logging
  • Script credentials
  • E-mail notification
• Error Codes
• Security
  • Security Access Levels
  • Security Advantages and Considerations
  • How Storage Mirroring Security Works
  • Clearing Maintained Security Credentials
    • Management Console Options - Security
  • Storage Mirroring Groups
    • Adding users to a group
  • Windows Active Directory
    • Disabling Active Directory
    • Configuring the Storage Mirroring service for Active Directory