** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** After my article this week about (ab) using the SRA provided through Site Recovery Manager to fail-over any LUN I expected some people reaching out to me with additional questions. One of the questions which came in more than once was [...]
** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** Last week I received a question and I figured I would dive in to it this week. The question was if it is possible to fail-over LUNs using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) which are not part of the Cluster which [...]
I was reading through some documentation and found a piece on creating a cold Standby vCenter server. This used to be a common practice with vCenter 2.5 and it worked well as vCenter itself was more or less stateless. With vSphere 4.0 something changed. Although at first it might not seem substantial it actually is. As of vSphere 4.0 VMware [...]
I received this Paper a while back and think it is an excellent read. I just copied a random part of the paper to give you an idea of what it covers. There’s not much more to say about it then just read it, it is as in-depth as it can get on FT. I read it several times by [...]
I just received an email from Hari Krishnan who is a Senior Product Manager at VMware. Hari has created a survey and is looking for feedback from our customers. Not only will you be helping VMware out, you will also help out a charity organisation which will receive $ 10 for every response for the first 1000 respondents. So please [...]
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 if [...]
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 premises for all of [...]
