Guidelines for Protecting Data using HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring with Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) (T2558-96332, March 2009)

Contents
About this guide ................................................................................... 7
Intended audience ...................................................................................................................... 7
Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................... 7
Related documentation ................................................................................................................ 8
Document conventions and symbols ............................................................................................... 8
HP technical support ................................................................................................................... 9
Subscription service .................................................................................................................... 9
HP websites ............................................................................................................................... 9
Documentation feedback ........................................................................................................... 10
1 Solution Overview ............................................................................ 11
Configurations .......................................................................................................................... 11
Modifying the sample script files ................................................................................................. 12
Enabling compression ............................................................................................................... 12
Configuring memory usage ........................................................................................................ 13
2 Sample Implementation ..................................................................... 15
Requirements ............................................................................................................................ 15
Prepare your source and target ................................................................................................... 15
Create a replication set and connect to the target ......................................................................... 15
Set up snapshot strategy ............................................................................................................ 16
Setting up asynchronous snapshots .............................................................................................. 17
Setting up crash-consistent synchronous snapshots ......................................................................... 20
Setting up data-consistent synchronous snapshots .......................................................................... 22
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