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

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction .........................................................1-1
Storage Mirroring operations ............................................................ 1-3
Mirroring ............................................................................................................. 1-3
Replication ........................................................................................................... 1-4
Failure monitoring and failover ............................................................................... 1-5
Restoration .......................................................................................................... 1-6
Chapter 2 Resources .............................................................2-1
Chapter 3 Storage Mirroring Setup .......................................3-1
System requirements ........................................................................ 3-1
Installing Storage Mirroring ............................................................. 3-1
Chapter 4 Evaluating Storage Mirroring ................................4-1
Checking your configuration ............................................................. 4-2
Establishing a connection ................................................................. 4-2
Monitoring the activity and completion of the initial mirror .............. 4-3
Changing data to cause replication ................................................... 4-4
Verifying the data changes on the target .......................................... 4-5
Testing your target data ................................................................... 4-7
Configuring failover .......................................................................... 4-8
Simulating a failure ........................................................................ 4-10
Simulating data changes after failover ........................................... 4-10
Performing failback ........................................................................ 4-11
Restoring your data ........................................................................ 4-12
Chapter 5 Conclusion ............................................................5-1