HP Storage Mirroring Software User Manual
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Migration
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Migrating an entire source to a provisioned virtual
machine on a VMware ESX target
If you want Storage Mirroring Data Migration to create a virtual machine on VMware ESX
during the migration process, you must have a VMware ESX host machine with an
existing virtual machine. See
for details on the requirements
for the ESX machine and the existing virtual machine. If your environment does not meet
those requirements, you will have to recover to an existing physical or virtual machine.
The existing virtual machine used during the provisioning process is used to as an
intermediary during the migration process to create the new virtual server that, once
online, will have the identity, data, and system state of the original source. The existing
virtual must have both Windows and Storage Mirroring Data Migration installed and
licensed before you can start the migration.
Tasks performed by the existing virtual machine during the
migration process
1. Create a new virtual machine
2. Add the disk(s) for that virtual machine to its own machine
3. Mount the disk(s)
4. Apply the incoming mirror data (the original source data and system state
information) from the source server to the mounted disk(s)
5. Unmount the disk(s)
6. Remove the disk(s) from its own machine
7. Start the new virtual machine
Once the new virtual machine is online, it will have the identity, data, and system state of
the original source. Since the existing virtual machine maintains its own identity, it can
be reused for additional migrations.