Storage Mirroring Evaluation Guide

4.5 Verifying the changes on the target server

Now that you have modified some of the files, you want to be sure that the file modifications

were applied correctly. For this evaluation, three different verification scenarios are presented

to demonstrate HP OpenView Storage Mirroring functionality and so that you can be certain that

the HP OpenView Storage Mirroring functionality is working as described.

4.5.1 Visual verification

1. From your client machine, browse your s: and t: drives. Compare the directory

structures and the total number of files.

2. Look again at the four files from step 5 under Changing the test data to cause

replication. Verify manually that the changes you made in steps 9 and 10 have been applied

to the target copy.

NOTE: Because of the way the Windows Cache Manager handles memory,

machines that are doing minimal or light processing, as you are in this

evaluation, may have file operations that remain in the cache until additional

operations flush them out. This may make HP OpenView Storage Mirroring

files on the target appear as if they are not synchronized. When the

Windows Cache Manager releases the operations in the cache on the

source, the files will be updated on the target. To make sure this does not

impact your testing, flush the cache by copying a couple of files from one

directory to another and then deleting them.