HP Storage Mirroring V5 Software User Manual

User’s guide

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Storage Mirroring Software

Table of contents

Document Outline

Introduction
- Intended audience
- Conventions used in this guide
- Resources
Storage Mirroring Overview
- Storage Mirroring operations
- Storage Mirroring add-ons and features
- Sample configurations
Installation
- System Requirements
- Installation and upgrade notes
- Installing or upgrading Storage Mirroring
- Installing or upgrading Storage Mirroring automatically
- Uninstalling Storage Mirroring
- Uninstalling Storage Mirroring automatically
Clients
- Management Console
  - Logging on and off of Storage Mirroring
  - Managing the Management Console Tree
- Storage Mirroring workspaces
  - Saving a workspace
  - Opening a workspace
- Failover Control Center
- Recovery Manager
  - Saving and reusing configuration options
- Full-Server Failover Manager
  - Configuring Full-Server Failover Manager options
  - Saving and reusing configuration options
Getting Started
Providing Disaster Recovery for an Entire Server
- Protecting an entire server
- Recovering an entire server
- Configuring optional settings
- Managing your Server Recovery Option snapshots
- Running Server Recovery Option from a command line
Providing High Availability for an Entire Server
- Finding a compatible target
- Configuring high availability for an entire server
- Configuring optional settings
- Monitoring high availability for an entire server
- Starting failover
- Viewing the log
- Managing your Full-Server Failover snapshots
- Running Full-Server Failover from a command line
Protecting Specific Data Using the Connection Wizard
Protecting Specific Data Using the Connection Manager
- Creating a replication set
- Establishing the connection
Protecting Data in a Cluster Environment
- Cluster configurations
- Establishing the connection
- Understanding the Source Connection Resource
Protecting Data Across a NAT or Firewall
- Verifying the Storage Mirroring port settings
- Configuring the hardware
- Inserting the servers in the Management Console
- Establishing the connection
Simulating a connection
- Gathering system information
- Creating a replication set
- Establishing the simulated connection
Managing Replication Sets
- Replication capabilities
- Creating or modifying replication set rules manually
- Modifying a replication set
- Renaming and copying a replication set
- Deleting a replication set
- Calculating replication set size
Managing Connections
- Monitoring connections
- Monitoring the message window
- Controlling mirroring
- Controlling an automatic mirror
- Configuring customized mirroring scripts
- Starting replication
- Configuring compression
- Configuring and removing orphan files
- Verifying your data
- Queuing Storage Mirroring data
- Blocking target paths
- Disconnecting a connection
Managing Data Transmission
- Controlling transmission manually
- Controlling a target manually
- Scheduling transmission criteria
- Setting bandwidth limitations
Failover
- Configuration requirements
- Configuring failover
- Editing failover configuration
- Removing failover configuration
- Monitoring failover
- Updating shares manually
- Testing failover
- Failover manual intervention
Restoration for Disaster Recovery
Restoration and Failback for High Availability
- Restoration then failback
- Failback then restoration
Monitoring Tools
- Log Files
- Windows Event Viewer
- DTStat
- Windows Performance Monitor
- SNMP
Server Settings
- General
- Licensing
- Setup
- Network
- Queue
- Source
- Target
- Database
- Logging
- Script credentials
- E-mail notification
Error Codes
Security
- Security Access Levels
- Security Advantages and Considerations
- How Storage Mirroring Security Works
- Clearing Maintained Security Credentials
  - Management Console Options - Security
- Storage Mirroring Groups
  - Adding users to a group
- Windows Active Directory
  - Disabling Active Directory
  - Configuring the Storage Mirroring service for Active Directory