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Using firewalls with virtual workloads – HP Storage Mirroring Software User Manual

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Workload protection

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Using firewalls with virtual workloads

If your source and target are on opposite sides of a firewall, you will need to configure
your hardware to accommodate communications. You must have the hardware already
in place and know how to configure the hardware ports. If you do not, see the reference
manual for your hardware.

These firewall instructions are for the following protection scenarios.

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Your source is a physical or virtual server, you want to protect the volumes from the
physical server or the volumes from within the virtual guest operating system, and
your target is a virtual server on a Hyper-V server.

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Your source is a physical or virtual server, you want to protect the volumes from the
physical server or the volumes from within the virtual guest operating system, and
your target is a virtual server on an ESX server.

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Your source is a Hyper-V virtual server, you want to protect the host-level virtual
disk files (the .vhd files), and your target is a virtual server on a Hyper-V server.

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Virtual workload ports

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Microsoft Windows ports

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Hardware ports