Storage Mirroring Evaluation Guide

3 HP OpenView Storage Mirroring Setup

Your HP OpenView Storage Mirroring setup consists of two tasks: determining that your source

and target meet the system requirements of this evaulation and performing the HP OpenView

Storage Mirroring installation.

3.1 System requirements

HP OpenView Storage Mirroring is an exceptionally flexible product that can be used in a wide

variety of network configurations. In a production environment, the multiple configurations can

be used independently or in varying combinations. For the purpose of this evaluation, you should

complete the evaluation procedures using two servers in a one-to-one, active/standby

configuration. This scenario dedicates one target machine, having no production activity, to

support one source machine. The source is the only machine actively replicating. This

configuration is appropriate for disaster recovery, failover, and critical data backup.

To implement a one-on-one configuration, make sure that you have two servers that each meet

the following system requirements:

! Operating System and Licensing—There are multiple versions of HP OpenView Storage

Mirroring depending on the operating system you are using. Be sure you have the correct

license for your operating system.

! Network—TCP/IP LAN connection with one network adapter and one IP address

HP OpenView Storage

Mirroring License

Valid Operating System

Workgroup NAS Edition ! Windows 2000 Powered OS Server Kernel

! Windows 2000 Powered OS Advanced Server Kernel

Server Edition ! Windows 2000 Server

! Windows NT 4.0 Server

! Windows Powered OS Server Kernel

Advanced Edition ! Windows 2000 Advanced Server

! Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition

! Windows Powered OS Advanced Server Kernel

! Any valid operating system which can be used with a HP

OpenView Storage Mirroring Server Edition license

NOTE: Any version of Windows NT 4.0 must have Service Pack 4 or higher.

NOTE: HP OpenView Storage Mirroring servers can have multiple NICs and/or IP

addresses. This limitation is only applied to simplify the evaluation process.