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Storage Mirroring Recover requirements Page 59 of 677
Physical or virtual to ESX requirements
Use these requirements if your source is a physical or virtual server, you want to protect
the volumes from the physical server or volumes from within the virtual guest operating
system, and your target is an automatically provisioned virtual server on an ESX server.
This means Storage Mirroring Recover will automatically create the virtual server on the
ESX target if failover is triggered.
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Source server—The source server can be any physical or virtual server running
any of the operating systems listed in the
General source and target server
requirements . If your source is a virtual server and you want Storage Mirroring
Recover to monitor it for failover, then you must have Integration Components
installed on the guest operating system and the virtual machine must be powered
on.
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ESX server—The ESX server that will host your target can be any of the following
operating systems. Note that ESX is commonly referred to as the Classic edition
and ESXi as the Embedded and Installable edition.
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ESX 3.5.x or ESXi 3.5.x Standard, Advanced, Enterprise, or Enterprise Plus
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ESX 4.0.x or 4.1 or ESXi 4.0.x or 4.1 Standard, Advanced, Enterprise, or
Enterprise Plus
Note: If you are using the Standard edition of ESX 4.0 or ESXi 4.0, you must
have update 1 or later.
If your source is a Windows 2008 R2 server, your ESX server must
have version 3.5 update 5 or later or ESX 4.0 update 1 or later.
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VirtualCenter—Although VirtualCenter is not required for the ESX versions, if you
are using it, then you must use version 2.5 or later.
Note: VMotion is only supported if you are using VirtualCenter.
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Virtual recovery appliance—The ESX server must have an existing virtual
machine, known as a virtual recovery appliance, that meets the following
requirements. (When you establish protection, the virtual recovery appliance will
create a new virtual server, mount disks, format disks, and so on. If failover occurs,
the new virtual machine is detached from the virtual recovery appliance and
powered on. Once the new virtual machine is online, it will have the identity, data,