HP Storage Mirroring V5 Software - Manual (Page 25)

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Recovering to an
Existing Machine
In the event the source should fail, you can use the image of the source, stored on the target image
server, to quickly and easily create a new source on a physical machine or on an existing virtual
machine. If you want the recovery process to automatically create a virtual machine during the
recovery process, see Recovering to an Automatically Provisioned Virtual Machine on page
8-1.
Before you begin the recovery process, understand that the flow of data is going to change. When
you were protecting your source, the data was being transmitted from the source to the target image
server. During recovery, the data will be transmitted from the target image server to the recovery
server. This means your target image server is now your source, and your recovery server is your
target.
If your recovery server does not have Server Image Copy installed on it, see
Preparing your
recovery server on page 7-2. After you have prepared your recovery server or if your recovery
server already has Server Image Copy installed on it, see Recovering your data on page 7-3.