DR for HFM

Dear All,
Do anybody has idea what are the steps need to be carried out for setting up Disaster Recovery(DR) server for HFM.
We have installed and configured DR server simmilar to our Prod server.It would be great if can get some guidelines.approach or documentation available for the same.
Thanks in advance,Merry XMas !!

Hi David,
Thanks for the reply.However my requirement is something DR setup for HFM environment.What I am interested to know,let me tell the scenario.
Scenario: We have two production servers P1 & P2. and two DR servers D1 & D2.
P1 & D1 Architecture : HFM,FDM and Shared services are installed.
P2 & D2 Architecture : Workspace and Reporting are installed.
Now the link has to be establieshed between P2 & D2 servers. When workspace link of P2 i.e. http://P2:19000/workspace/index.jsp is down user should be redirected to http://D2:19000/workspace/index.jsp
In this duration database should copy all the applicn data from P2 and load into D2.Would like to know how this can be done for HFM,FDM,Shared Services,Reports etc. We have a database team that will take care of the database mirroring but from Hyperion Applications perspective was wondering how to automate this process.
Thanks again for your concern.

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