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) and one particular [...]

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 successful and automated [...]

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 an outtake from the article: [...]

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

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 4. [...]

Did you know that… the best practice to increase the isolation response time(das.failuredetectiontime) from 15000 to 60000 for an Active/Standby situation for your service console has been deprecated as of vSphere. (In other words for active/standby leave it set to the default 15000 for vSphere) the limit of 100 VMs per host is actually “100 powered on and HA enabled [...]

I was just replaying Banjot Chanana’s session “VMware Availability Solutions and Futures“. Banjot is the product manager for the availability solutions HA and FT. I met Banjot in Palo Alto the week before VMworld and we spoke about HA, present and futures. Unfortunately I can’t elaborate on anything that has been discussed but I can however repeat what Banjot spoke [...]