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

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Since it can be essential to quickly know the status of failover, Storage Mirroring offers various
methods for monitoring the state of failover. When the Failover Control Center is running, you will
see four visual indicators:
 The Failover Control Center Time to Fail counter
 The Failover Control Center status bar located at the bottom of the window
 The Failover Control Center colored bullets to the left of each IP address and source machine
 The Windows desktop icon tray containing a failover icon
For more information on the visual indicators, see the User’s Guide.
Target machine information
including the NIC which will
assume the
failover traffic,
Source machine and its IP addresses.
Some of the failover settings are
source specific and some can be
set individually
for each IP
Settings to configure
the length of time
before failover occurs
Allows you to
insert other
machines or
Multiple settings
allow you to
determine when
and how failover
Active Directory
Scripting allows
you to automate
processes and
User intervention
to give you more
control over the
Share failover, if
will occur
failover process
desired
Setting to
determine how
to apply the
target data at
configuration
make failback
seamless
specify an IP
address instead
of a machine
the monitoring
method, and
address on the
source.
failover
name
the IP addresses
assigned to that
NIC.