HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Recover User's Guide (T5437-96008, November 2009)
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Storage Mirroring Recover workloads
Building on Storage Mirroring Recover core operations, you can protect specific
workloads to meet your protection goals.
● Full-server workload protection—You can protect an entire server, including the
data and system state, which is the server's configured operating system and
applications. In the event of a failure, the target becomes the source.
● Application workload protection—You can protect applications running your
source, including Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, File servers, and BlackBerry.
● Virtual workload protection—You can protect:
● An ESX virtual machine using host-level protection.
● An entire physical or virtual machine using an ESX virtual machine.
● An entire physical or virtual machine using a Microsoft Hyper-V virtual
machine.
● A Hyper-V virtual machine using host-level protection.
● Cluster workload protection—You can protect two types of clusters - a standard
cluster where a single copy of data resides on a SCSIdisk shared between cluster
nodes, or a GeoCluster that eliminates the single point of failure of a shared disk
by replicating data between volumes.
Full-server workload protection
Full-server workload protection provides high availability for an entire server, including
the system state, which is the server's configured operating system and applications.
You identify your source, which is the server you want to protect, and your target, which
is the server that will stand-in for the source in the event the source fails. Once the two
servers are selected and their configurations validated, Storage Mirroring Recover
monitors the source for a failure. When it fails, Storage Mirroring Recover allows the
target to stand-in for the source by rebooting and applying the source, including its
system state, on the target. After the reboot, the target becomes the source, and the
target no longer exists.