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

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Note:
Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure cannot be used to protect a
Storage Mirroring Recover Virtual Recovery Assistant for ESX recovery
appliance.
Storage Mirroring Recover for Virtual Infrastructure includes support for VMware
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
Protect an entire physical or virtual machine using an ESX virtual machine
You can use the Storage Mirroring Recover Virtual Recovery Assistant for ESX console
to protect entire physical and/or virtual source machines to virtual target machines
running on VMware ESX Server. In addition to providing the proven Storge Mirroring
byte-level replication, monitoring, and failover technologies, Storage Mirroring Recover
Virtual Recovery Assistant greatly simplifies the setup of the target virtual machines by
automating the virtual machine provisioning process.
Storage Mirroring Recover Virtual Recovery Assistant uses a client/server architecture.
● The Virtual Recovery Assistant clients are used to create protection jobs.
● The target VMware ESX host server is a physical machine that the VMware ESX
host software runs on. The Virtual Recovery Appliance and any replica virtual
machines will reside on this ESX host.
● The Virtual Recovery Appliance is a virtual machine running on the target
VMware ESX host. The Virtual Recovery Appliance serves as a communication
and management hub for all Storage Mirroring Recover Virtual Recovery Assistant
activities. Some of its functions include:
● Handling all ESX server communication (for example, it creates the virtual
machine, creates disks, mounts disks, formats disks, and dismount disks)
● Creating and controlling the Storage Mirroring Recover Virtual Recovery
Assistant job.
● Reporting the Storage Mirroring Recover Virtual Recovery Assistant state to
the clients.
● Virtual replica machines are hosted by the VMware ESX host server. The virtual
replica machines are created by the source protection job using the Virtual
Recovery Appliance, but remain powered off until failover. At failover, the replica
machine is powered on and assumes the identity of the original source machine.