VMware just released patch 2 for SRM 1.0 Update 1. It’s a cumulative patch that corrects several problems with 1.o Update 1: a problem that prevents protected virtual machines from following recommended Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) settings when recovering to more than one DRS cluster. a problem observed at sites that support more than seven ESX hosts. If you refresh [...]

EMC just announced that they are adding automated failbacks to SRM for their Celerra family via a vCenter plugin. I hope I can see a demo here at VMworld: VMware Site Recovery Manager Automated Failback via a VMware vCenter plug-in helps Celerra customers coordinate a “failback” to the original virtual infrastructure, including all the process steps once VMware Site Recovery [...]

I just got off the phone with a former colleague. He was implementing SRM at a customer site and couldn’t get it working correctly because the VMFS volumes weren’t discovered at the recovery site. As most of you know sometimes you need to rescan your HBA’s twice before the LUNs and orVMFS volumes are discovered. When using SRM the rescan [...]

Veeam just released Backup 3.0 with ESXi(including the Free version) support: In addition to the ESXi backup through VCB that was introduced with version 2.0, Veeam Backup 3.0 now supports ESXi backup without VCB. Veeam Backup is the only VMware backup solution that lets you backup and restore virtual machines running on all existing editions of ESXi, including ESXi free. [...]

I was just reading up on VMTN and noticed this great topic. For some reason there are a lot of people that don’t see the difference between HA and SRM. I suggest reading the full topic and especially Jay Judkowitz’s replies and Smoggy’s reply, both are Subject Matter Experts on SRM and explained the topic starter what the differences are [...]

VMware just announced a new add-on for vCenter: Source As customers expand their use of VMware, maintaining a highly available management infrastructure is quickly becoming a key requirement. Learn about VMware’s new availability solution for vCenter Server and how it expands infrastructure and services sales opportunities. The title of the webex is “Introducing VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat” In other words, [...]

After reading Aaron‘s excellent articles(1, 2) on Scott Lowe’s Blog I remembered a discussion I had with a couple of co-workers. The discussion was about VMware HA Cluster design in Blade Environments. The thing that started this discussing was an HA “problem” that occurred at a customer site. This specific customer had 2 Blade chassis to avoid a single point [...]