HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Virtual Recovery Assistant user's guide (T2558-96323, April 2009)

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Installing Virtual
Recovery Assistant
Requirements
Storage Mirroring Virtual Recovery Assistant requires the following minimum system configuration:
 Source machines can be any 32- or 64-bit physical or virtual machines running Microsoft
®
Windows
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2003 with Service Pack 1 or later
 The target VMware ESX host server is a physical machine running VMware ESX 3.01 or later.
 The Storage Mirroring Virtual Recovery Assistant service runs on the Virtual Recovery Appliance.
The Virtual Recovery Appliance must be a virtual machine running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of
Microsoft Windows 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later and hosted by the VMware ESX server where
you want to create the replica virtual machines.
You must create the virtual machine to be used as the Virtual Recovery Appliance before
installing Storage Mirroring Virtual Recovery Assistant. It is strongly recommended that this
virtual machine be used for no other purpose than as the Virtual Recovery Appliance.
 The Storage Mirroring Virtual Recovery Assistant client software must be installed on a 32-bit or
64-bit physical or virtual server running one of the following operating systems:
 Microsoft Windows XP
 Microsoft Windows 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later
 Microsoft Windows 2008
 Depending on your version of Windows and the components installed, you may see an additional
button on the last screen of the installation program allowing you to download the Microsoft .NET
Framework version 3.5. If you do not see this button, your server already has the appropriate
version of .NET.
 You will need to verify that port 6330 is open for Storage Mirroring Virtual Recovery Assistant
communications.
NOTE:
 A version of Storage Mirroring with the Windows Server 2008 feature pack must
be installed on the source server.
 In order to protect a 64-bit source machine, both the source and the recovery
appliance must be running a 64-bit version of Windows.
 The source and target cannot both be domain controllers. Only one or the other
can be a domain controller. Ideally, the target should not be a domain controller
or host any functionality (file server, application server, and so on) because the
functionality will be removed when failover occurs.
If your source is a domain controller, it will start in a non-authoritative restore
mode after failover. This means that if the source was communicating with other
domain controllers before failover, it will require one of those domain controllers
to be reachable after failover so it can request updates. If this communication is
not available, the domain controller will not function after failover. If the source is
the only domain controller, this is not an issue.
NOTE: If you are running VMware ESX version 3i, you will either need to use a licensed
version or install the ESX 3.i 3.5.0 update or later.
NOTE: A version of Storage Mirroring with the Windows Server 2008 feature pack must be
installed on the Virtual Recovery Appliance.
NOTE: The client should not be running on the source machine.