Recovery – HP Storage Mirroring Software User Manual
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Recovery
In some cases, you can recover data or an entire server back to your original source.
Additionally, you can use the source data or the image of a entire source, stored on the
repository server, to quickly and easily create a new source server. Your new source can
be an existing physical or virtual machine, or Storage Mirroring Replicate can
automatically provision (create) a virtual machine during the recovery process.
When your recovery server is a not your original source, Storage Mirroring Replicate
must be installed on the recovery server (or on the existing virtual machine on an
ESX server) before you start the recovery process. However, you do not need to install
Storage Mirroring Replicate from a CD or web download or have a valid activation code
for the recovery server. Storage Mirroring Replicate has a built-in installation feature that
installs a valid, unactivated copy of Storage Mirroring Replicate on the recovery server.
At any time before the recovery, you can use this built-in installation feature to push a
copy of Storage Mirroring Replicate to your recovery server. If your recovery server
already has a previously installed, properly licensed and activated copy of Storage
Mirroring Replicate, you can skip the recovery installation and go directly to the recovery
process. See
Installing on the recovery server
for the steps to install Storage Mirroring
Replicate on your recovery server.
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 repository server. During recovery, the data will be transmitted from the
repository server to the recovery server. This means your repository server is now your
source, and your recovery server is your target.
You have the following recovery options.
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Recovering an entire server to an existing physical or virtual machine
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Recovering an entire server to an automatically provisioned virtual machine on
VMware ESX
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Recovering an entire server to an automatically provisioned virtual machine on
Hyper-V
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Recovering data to an existing physical or virtual machine
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