HP Storage Mirroring Software - Manual (Page 287)

Workload protection Page 286 of 677
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Choose a target datastore—Select a datastore in the table that is large
enough to hold the source virtual machine. The minimum size is noted at the
bottom of the page.
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Enter the path for the replica virtual machine—Specify a location to store
the replica of the source virtual machine. By default, the location will be
named the source virtual machine name.
Note: The replica virtual path cannot contain any of the following special
characters.
# / \ : * ? ' " < > |
By specifying a datastore and path with an existing virtual disk, you
can reuse an existing virtual machine 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 for Virtual Infrastructure performs a difference mirror
which saves times. Use the following steps to reuse a virtual machine.
1. Verify the source has at least one active snapshot, thus unlocking
the .vmdk files allowing them to be copied.
2. Create a protection job, but delay the protection start time. Provide
a long enough delay to copy the .vmdk files from the source to the
target.