Posts Tagged ‘BC-DR’

VMware vCenter SRM 4.0.1 released

VMware just released VMware vCenter SRM 4.0.1.
Site Recovery Manager 4.0.1
File size: 104 MB
You can find the download here. This patch fixes the following issues:

Test recovery times have been improved for ESX 4.0.1 hosts that use iSCSI arrays.
a problem that could cause a recovery plan to hang while powering-off virtual machines at the protected site [...]

Where should you get SRA’s from?

I received Michael White’s(VMware BCDR Specialist SE) weekly newsletter over the weekend and the following is a question I also receive on a regular basis so why not blog it?!
I had a disagreement with a friend about where to get SRA’s from. He was under the impression that we didn’t have the arrays in our [...]

SRM 4.0, Howto’s by Cormac Hogan

One of my colleagues, Cormac Hogan, posted some excellent guides for SRM 4.0:

Steps to setup VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 with IBM SVC
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is a disater recovery product which uses array replication technologies to failover from one site to another. This particular document looks at one particular vendor (IBM) [...]

SRM 4.0 Evaluator Guide

For those starting out with SRM 4.0 the following documents/links might be very useful:

Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Evaluator’s Guide
The Site Recovery Manager 4.0 Evaluator’s Guide is intended to provide Site Recovery Manager customers and evaluators a guide that walks them through the Site Recovery Manager workflow that has to be completed to allow for the [...]

Slot sizes

I’ve been receiving a lot of questions around slot sizes lately. Although I point everyone to my HA Deepdive post not everyone seems to understand what I am trying to explain. The foremost reason is that most people need to be able to visualize it; which is tough with slot sizes. Just to freshen up [...]

SRM 4.0 KB Articles

For those looking into implementing SRM 4.0 four KB articles have been released related to SRM 4.0:

Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.0 Upgrade FAQ
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013166
Using vCenter Heartbeat With SRM 4.0
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014266
Enabling 128-bit encryption for SRAs that use SSL:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1014232
Context-sensitive help not accessible in Internet Explorer 7:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/42104394
Requirements When Using Trusted Certificates with SRM:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008390

SRM 4.0 released

VMware just released version 4.0 of SRM. Just to be clear this is not the 4th version of SRM, the version number is aligned with vCenter and ESX. I’ve highlighted the new features which I think are really really useful or exciting.
Site Recovery Manager 4.0 | 05-October-2009 | Build 192921
Release Note
New Features:

Full compatibility with vCenter [...]

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