HP Storage Mirroring V5 Software - Manual (Page 6)

2 - 1
Installing Server
Image Copy
Review the server requirements and when your servers meet the required conditions, continue with
the installation instructions.
Server requirements
Each server must meet minimum server requirements. Verify that each of your Server Image Copy
servers meets the following requirements.

Operating system for the source—Server Image Copy can protect a source server running any
of the following Windows ® operating system editions.

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, HPC, Standard, Web, Small Business Server,
Enterprise x64, or Standard x64

Windows Server 2003 or 2003 R2 Enterprise, Standard, Web, Small Business Server,
Enterprise x64, or Standard x64. Each of the Windows 2003 operating systems require Service
Pack 1 or later.

Operating system for the target image server—The target image server can have any
operating system that core Storage Mirroring supports, with the exception of Itanium and
Datacenter. See the Storage Mirroring User’s Guide for complete details on core support.

Operating system for the recovery server—You have a choice in the type of recovery server
you want to use.

Physical recovery server—Your recovery server can be a physical machine. It can have any
operating system that core Storage Mirroring supports, with the exception of Itanium and
Datacenter. See the Storage Mirroring User’s Guide for complete details on core support.

Existing virtual recovery server—Your recovery server can be an existing virtual machine.
The virtual machine can have any operating system that core Storage Mirroring supports, with
the exception of Itanium and Datacenter. See the Storage Mirroring User’s Guide for complete
details on core support.

Server Image Copy provisioned virtual recovery server—Your recovery server can be a
non-existent virtual machine on a VMware
®
ESX physical machine. Server Image Copy can
create a virtual machine on the ESX machine during the recovery process. The physical
machine must have VMware ESX 3.01 or later with HotRemove patch #6921838. The ESX
machine must have a virtual machine, referred to in Server Image Copy as a Virtual Recovery
Appliance, running Windows Server 2003 or 2003 R2 Enterprise or Standard Edition. The
Virtual Recovery Appliance must have Server Image Copy installed and licensed on it before
you can start the recovery. During the recovery, the Virtual Recovery Appliance is used as an
intermediary to create the new virtual server, mount disks, format disks, and so on. Once that
new virtual server is created and is online, it will have the identity, data, and system state of
the original source. See Recovering to an Automatically Provisioned Virtual Machine on
page 8-1 for details on how the provisioned virtual recovery process works.

File system—Server Image Copy supports the same file system formats that core Storage
Mirroring and Microsoft ® support: FAT, FAT32, and NTFS.
NOTE: The architecture of the original source and the Virtual Recovery Appliance must
be the same. A 32-bit source can only be recovered using a 32-bit Virtual
Recovery Appliance, and a 64-bit source can only be recovered using a 64-bit
Virtual Recovery Appliance.