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

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and drive shares during a failover. Identity failover may be required in the following
situations:
● Access to the domain controller or DNS server is not available (for example, due to
permissions) from the account that Storage Mirroring Recover runs under on the
source/target servers.
● If you determine that the time it takes to propagate the necessary DNS or Active
Directory changes to the rest of your environment is not acceptable. The time
needed to propagate these changes depends on your Active Directory Replication
and DNS server settings.
● If you have client applications that are configured to connect to an IP address
rather than a server name.
After you select the Identity Failover option, click Configure. The Configure Identity
Failover window will appear.
Enter the following information for Identity failover:
1. In the Source IP column, select the source IP address(es) to be monitored for
failover.
2. In the Target NIC column, select the target NIC to be used when failover occurs.
3. The Target IP Addresses area displays the IP address(es) of the selected target
NIC.
4. Select the IP Address checkbox if you want the specified source IP address to be
monitored (Default = selected).
Note:
If your source and target servers are on different subnets, you should NOT
failover the IP address. Instead, if the server name is required you should