Using the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard

Use the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard to create a copy of a on another secondary . Creating a copy of a at a remote location gives you a backup of your data that you can access in case of catastrophic data loss at the primary site.

The Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard helps you to quickly define a primary logical drive and a and to synchronize the data between the two logical drives. To learn more about the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard before you start, see the “Preview of the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard” section in this topic.


Attention:

Risk of application errors – You cannot create a mirror relationship if the primary logical drive contains unreadable sectors. Furthermore, if an unreadable sector is discovered during a mirroring operation, the mirror relationship fails.

Keep these guidelines in mind when you use Enhanced Remote Mirroring:

Before you use this wizard, make sure that the following requirements have been met:

Accessing the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard

To access the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard, in the Logical pane, select a logical drive, and select Logical Drive >> Enhanced Remote Mirroring >> Create .

The Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring - Introduction dialog appears. Follow the directions on each of the dialogs, and click Next to move to the next dialog.

Preview of the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard

You must first enable the Enhanced Remote Mirroring premium feature and activate it on both the primary storage subsystem and the secondary storage subsystem before you can create a remote logical drive mirror. This list describes some of the dialogs that you will encounter when you use the Create Enhanced Remote Mirroring Wizard:

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