HP Storage Mirroring Software - Manual (Page 36)

Storage Mirroring Recover requirements Page 35 of 677
on. Additionally, on a target server, you need sufficient disk space to store the
replicated data from all connected sources, allowing additional space for growth.
Note: The program files can be installed to any volume while the Microsoft
Windows Installer files are automatically installed to the operating system
boot volume.
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Server name—Storage Mirroring Recover includes Unicode file system support,
but your server name must still be in ASCII format. If you have the need to use a
server's fully-qualified domain name, your server cannot start with a numeric
character because that will be interpreted as an IP address.
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Protocols and networking—Your servers must meet the following protocol and
networking requirements.
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Your servers must have TCP/IP with static IP addressing.
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By default, Storage Mirroring Recover is configured for IPv6 and IPv4
environments, but the Storage Mirroring service will automatically check the
server at service startup and modify the appropriate setting if the server is
only configured for IPv4. If you later add IPv6, you will need to manually
modify the DefaultProtocol server setting. See the Scripting Guide for details
on modify that server setting.
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IPv6 is only supported for Windows 2008 servers.
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If you are using IPv6 on your servers, your clients must be run from an IPv6
capable machine.
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In order to properly resolve IPv6 addresses to a hostname, a reverse lookup
entry should be made in DNS.
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)—Storage Mirroring Recover is
dependent on the WMI service. If you do not use this service in your environment,
contact technical support.
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Windows firewall—The installation program will automatically attempt to configure
ports 6320, 6325, 6330, and 6332 for Storage Mirroring Recover. If you cancel this
step, you will have to configure the ports manually.
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Snapshots—Storage Mirroring Recover uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy
service for snapshot capabilities. To use this functionality, your servers must meet
the following requirements.
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Snapshot operating system—Your servers must be running, at a minimum,
Windows 2003 Service Pack 1. You should upgrade to Service Pack 2 or
later so that several Microsoft patches that address memory leaks in the
Volume Shadow Copy service are applied. If you do not have Service Pack 2