HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Replicate User's Guide (T5437-96023, November 2010)

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Recovering an entire server to an automatically
provisioned virtual machine on VMware ESX
If you want Storage Mirroring Replicate to create a virtual machine on VMware ESX
during the recovery process, you must have a VMware ESX host machine with an
existing virtual machine. See Recovery server requirements for details on the
requirements for the ESX machine and the existing virtual machine. If your environment
does not meet those requirements, you will have to recover to an existing physical or
virtual machine.
The existing virtual machine used during the provisioning process is used as an
intermediary during the recovery process to create the new virtual server that, once
online, will have the identity, data, and system state of the original source. The existing
virtual must have both Windows and Storage Mirroring Replicate installed and licensed
before you can start the recovery.
Tasks performed by the existing virtual machine during the
recovery process
1. Create a new virtual machine.
2. Add the disk(s) for that virtual machine to its own machine.
3. Mount the disk(s).
4. Apply the incoming mirror data (the original source data and system state
information) from the repository server to the mounted disk(s).
5. Unmount the disk(s).
6. Remove the disk(s) from its own machine.
7. Start the new virtual machine.
Once the new virtual machine is online, it will have the identity, data, and system state of
the original source. Since the existing virtual machine maintains its own identity, it can
be reused for additional recoveries.