Awesome find here, and even more awesome of a job by the VMware Site Recovery Manager development teams. Here’s the explanation, screen shots likely wouldn’t help a whole lot and I’d need to obfuscate quite a bit since I’m dealing in a corporate environment and not a lab. Background, I’m migrating to a new SAN […]
Host Based Replication (HBR) was announced at VMworld 2010 “BC8432 SRM Futures: Host Based Replication” as a future, stuff but nearly production ready, mind feature of the next version release of Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Impressions are that this will not be an additionally licensed feature but will be a native feature of SRM. HBR […]
Mike Laverick has released the much-anticipated Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0 book. This is the first book of it’s kind for Site Recovery Manager and is a must read. Mike is an established instructor and author at rtfm-ed.co.uk & SearchVMware.com along with being an active Twitter contributor. For the book Mike has enlisted several […]
After a few Site Recovery Manager installations I’m seeing that the planning for a deployment is not only infinitely more challenging than the relatively easy installation but is also the most overlooked. I imagine many of us would concur that this behavior is not unique in the industry, it just so happens that my passion […]
Quick notes on the SRM 4.0 install, which was also pretty trivial save for a few key points. I needed to take advantage of the Shared Recovery Site feature, well documented on VMware’s Knowledge Base article 1014640. The real short story on the install is to execute the installable via command line with a /V”CUSTOM_SETUP=1″ […]
In order to provide support for my Windows 7 using administrators I made the hasty decision to do a quick upgrade on vSphere Server to U1. After the upgrade I found that SRM services would no longer start on my SRM servers. After spending way too long on troubleshooting what appeared to be invalid credentials I […]
My life this year has been a project of implementing RecoverPoint and SRM. No, it really shouldn’t take all year but it’s been a hell of a year. My project has officially been declared complete, by me. I’ve been doing some extensive testing of SRM and integration with a few physical hosts all using EMC […]
Note: Finally upgraded to version 3.2 SP1 after my complaining about the snapshot consolidation bug… First, the admin account has been stripped of some privileges. This account no longer has the ability to manage bookmarking or image access. I personally see that as a good thing, now I can change the passwords my UNIX admins […]
I wanted to start detailing my findings of my almost 8 month project of deploying SRM in my environment. As I started looking at the design of SRM I began to notice some issues with my current environment. In keeping in line with some in-house best practices we have multiple virtual machines spanning across multiple […]