HP Storage Mirroring Software User Manual

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critical that all files, not just some of them that might be newer, get
mirrored.

Use block checksum—For those files flagged as different, the mirror
performs a checksum comparison and only sends those blocks that are
different.

Calculate Replication Set size prior to mirror—Determines the size of the
replication set prior to starting the mirror. The mirroring status will update the
percentage complete if the replication set size is calculated.

8. Click Finish to complete the creation of the GeoCluster Replicated Disk resource.

Creating the GeoCluster Replicated Disk Resource on Windows 2008

1. Select Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, Failover Cluster Management.
2. Right-click the application group where you want to add a replicated disk to and

select Add a resource, More resources, Add GeoCluster Replicated Disk.

3. Right-click on the resource and select Properties.
4. On the Connection Parameters tab, specify the GeoCluster Replicated Disk

connection parameters using the settings below.

Disk to replicate—Select a disk to replicate from the available volumes. The
only volumes that will be displayed are those that meet the following criteria:

NTFS volumes

Volumes which are not already being replicated by another GeoCluster
Replicated Disk resource

Volumes that are not physical disk resources

Volumes that do not contain system files (The volume that you booted
Windows from will not be displayed.)

Volumes that exist on all nodes of the cluster

Note:

If you are using Hyper-V, select the drive where the virtual machine .vhd
file is stored.

Network to route Double-Take mirroring and replication traffic over
Select the network that you want to use for Storage Mirroring Recover
mirroring and replication traffic. If you do not have multiple networks
established, you will only be able to select the one network that does exist. If
you do not select a network, Storage Mirroring Recover will use DNS to
determine a network route to use. Ideally, the networks used for various traffic
should be separated. This is dependent on the number of networks that you
established when you created the cluster and the priority assigned to each

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