HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Recover User's Guide (T5437-96008, November 2009)

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which provide guidelines on using manual processes to configure your application with
Storge Mirroring.
Virtual workload protection
Protect an ESX virtual machine using host-level protection
Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure uses host-level protection to protect
entire virtual machines on the VMware ESX Server platform by actively replicating virtual
machine files between datastores. Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure
leverages VMware published and supported web service APIs for snapshot and virtual
machine management, ensuring that protected and replica virtual machines are in
known and manageable states. This ensures that data will be crash-consistent and time-
coherent across all virtual disks on the virtual machine.
Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure can be used to protect any operating
system that is supported by VMware. Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure
protects virtual machines by creating VI snapshots, actively monitoring and managing
those snapshots, and transferring them from the source datastore to the target datastore.
Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure uses a client/server architecture. One
Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure service serves multiple remote
SMRVI clients. The Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure service may or
may not co-locate with the VMware VirtualCenter service.