HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring user's guide (T2558-96073, February 2008)

9 - 2
Establishing the connection
After you have created a replication set, you can establish a connection through the Connection Manager by connecting the
replication set to a target.
1. Open the Connection Manager to establish the connection.
 Highlight the replication set and select Tools, Connection Manager.
 Right-click on the replication set and select Connection Manager.
 Drag and drop the replication set onto a target. The target icon could be in the left or right pane of the Management
Console.
2. The Connection Manager opens to the Servers tab. Depending on how you opened the Connection Manager, some
entries on the Servers tab will be completed already. For example, if you accessed the Connection Manager by
right-clicking on a replication set, the name of the replication set will be displayed in the Connection Manager. Verify or
complete the fields on the
Servers tab.
 Source Server—Specify the source server that contains the replication set that is going to be transmitted to the
Storage Mirroring target.
 Replication Set—At least one replication set must exist on the source before establishing a connection. Specify
the replication set that will be connected to the target.
 Target Server—Specify which Storage Mirroring target will maintain the copy of the source’s replication set data.
You can specify a machine name, IP address, or virtual IP address.
 Route—This is an optional setting allowing you to specify the IP address and port on the target the data will be
transmitted through. This allows you to select a different route for Storage Mirroring traffic. For example, you can
separate regular network traffic and Storage Mirroring traffic on a machine with multiple IP addresses.
 Mappings—You must specify the location on the target where the source’s replication set data will reside. Storage
Mirroring offers two predefined locations as well as a custom option that allows you to create your own path.
 All To One—This option replicates data from the source to a single volume on the target. The pre-defined
path is
\source_name\replication_set_name\source_volume. If you are replicating from multiple
volumes on the source, each volume would be replicated to the same volume on the target. For example,
c:\data and d:\files for the source Alpha and replication set DataFiles would be replicated to
c:\alpha\DataFiles\c and c:\alpha\DataFiles\d, respectively.
 One To One—This option replicates data from the source to the same directory structure on the target. For
example,
c:\data and d:\files on the source will be replicated to c:\data and d:\files, respectively, on
the target.