HP Storage Mirroring Software - Manual (Page 275)

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Full path where the replica virtual machine will be stored—Specify a
location on the selected Volume to store the replica of the source. By
specifying an existing folder, you can reuse an existing virtual machine on
your Hyper-V target created by a previous protection job. This can be useful
for pre-staging data on a virtual machine over a LAN connection and then
relocating it to a remote site after the initial mirror is complete. When you
reuse a virtual machine, Storage Mirroring Recover performs a difference
mirror which saves time. Use the following steps to reuse a virtual machine
on a Hyper-V target.
a. Create a protection job in a LAN environment, letting Storage Mirroring
Recover create the virtual disk for you.
b. Complete the mirror process locally.
c. Disconnect and delete the protection job and when prompted, select to
Keep and register the replica virtual machine.
d. From the Hyper-V manager, delete the replica virtual machine, which
will delete the virtual machine configuration but will keep the
associated .vhd files.
e. Shut down and move the Hyper-V target server to your remote site.
f. After the target server is back online at the remote site, create a new
protection job for the same source server and select to reuse the
existing virtual machine when prompted. Storage Mirroring Recover will
reuse the existing .vhd files and perform a difference mirror over the
WAN to bring the virtual machine up-to-date.
11. Click Next to continue.
12. Configure the replica virtual machine. The fields on this page will vary depending
on your selections.