HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Evaluation Guide (T2558-96326, April 2009)

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Storage Mirroring
Setup
Your setup consists of two tasks: determining that your source and meet the system requirements
of this evaluation and performing the installation.
System requirements
Storage Mirroring is an exceptionally flexible product that can be used in a wide variety of network
configurations. In a production environment, the multiple configurations can be used independently
or in varying combinations. For the purpose of this evaluation, you should complete the evaluation
procedures using two servers in a test environment. The servers should be in a one-to-one,
active/standby configuration. This scenario dedicates one target, having no production activity, to
support one source. The source is the only machine actively replicating. To implement a one-on-one
configuration, make sure that you have two servers that each meet the following system
requirements.
 Operating system—Different Storage Mirroring licenses supports different operating systems.
For this evaluation, your operating system should be Windows
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2008 Standard or Enterprise or
Windows 2003 or 2003 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Standard x64, or Enterprise x64. Each of the
Windows 2003 operating systems require Service Pack 1 or later.
 System Memory—There are different memory requirements depending on the operating system
you are using. For this evaluation, you should have at least 128 MB of memory if you are using a
32-bit operating systems or 512 MB of memory if you are using a 64-bit operating system. Higher
amounts of memory are better.
 Disk Usage—The amount of disk space required for the Storage Mirroring program files is
approximately 70 MB. For this evaluation, additional free space is not critical, since you will not
be queuing data, logging files, and so on. You should verify that your target server has sufficient
disk space to store the replicated data from the source.
 Protocols and Networking—TCP/IP with static IP addressing or reserved DHCP addressing is
required. By default, Storage Mirroring is configured for IPv6 and IPv4 environments, but the
Storage Mirroring service will automatically check the server at service startup and modify the
appropriate setting if the server is only configured for IPv4.
Complete details on system requirements are available in the Storage Mirroring User’s Guide.
Installing Storage Mirroring
Use these instructions to install Storage Mirroring. Complete installation details are available in the
Storage Mirroring User’s Guide.
1. Close any open applications.
2. Start the installation program using the appropriate instructions, depending on your media
source.
 CD—Load the CD into the local CD-ROM drive. If auto-run is enabled, the installation program
will start automatically. To manually start the program, select Start, Run and specify
<cd_drive>:\autorun.exe.
 Web download—Launch the .exe file that you downloaded from the web.
NOTE: When evaluating you should install and evaluate it in a test environment. Do not use your
actual production servers because you will be forcing a failure during the evaluation.