Storage Mirroring Evaluation Guide

Table of Contents
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Evaluation guide overview ................................................................................................................... 2
1.2 HP OpenView Storage Mirroring Operations ..................................................................................2
1.2.1 Mirroring ......................................................................................................................................................3
1.2.2 Replication ....................................................................................................................................................4
1.2.3 Failure monitoring/failover .......................................................................................................................5
1.2.4 Restoration ..................................................................................................................................................6
2 Resources ......................................................................................................................................7
3 HP OpenView Storage Mirroring Setup ...................................................................................8
3.1 System requirements .......................................................................................................................... 8
3.2 Installing HP OpenView Storage Mirroring .................................................................................... 10
4 HP OpenView Storage Mirroring Evaluation .........................................................................12
4.1 Creating initial test data .................................................................................................................... 13
4.2 Creating and connecting a replication set ....................................................................................... 14
4.3 Monitoring the activity and completion of the initial mirror ........................................................ 22
4.4 Changing the test data to cause replication .................................................................................... 23
4.5 Verifying the changes on the target server ..................................................................................... 26
4.5.1 Visual verification .....................................................................................................................................26
4.5.2 Third-party verification ..........................................................................................................................27
4.5.3 HP OpenView Storage Mirroring verification ...................................................................................28
4.6 Configuring failover ............................................................................................................................ 30
4.7 Monitoring failover ............................................................................................................................. 32
4.8 Initiating a failure ............................................................................................................................... 33
4.9 Performing failback ............................................................................................................................ 34
4.10 Restoring data .................................................................................................................................. 36
5 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................38