One of my customers asked me how they could change the administrator email address after the installation of SRM. He turned the GUI upside down but couldn’t find it anywhere. Extension.xml is the configuration xml file where you can change the Administrator Email: <adminEmail>admin@yellow-bricks.com</adminEmail>
Let’s start with a screenshot: These are the properties of an HA cluster, as you can see there are two sections that changed: “Enable Host Monitoring” is a brand new feature. Anyone who did network maintenance while HA was enabled knows why this feature will come in handy. Those that didn’t: Isolation response! If ESX is unable to send or [...]
Just noticed that several Storage Replication Adapter’s(SRA) have been updated over the last couple of weeks. For those using one of these specific SRA’s it might be beneficial to update: EMC RecoverPoint 3.1 Storage Replication Adapter Version 1.0.2.1 | Released 03/17/2009 Storage Array Adapter for IBM N-Series Version 1.0.1 | Released 03/18/2009 IBM DS4000 / DS5000 Series Storage Replication Adapter [...]
FYI: The Site Recovery Manager compatibility guide has just been updated. As of the 16th of march vCenter 2.5 U4 is supported for SRM 1.0 update 1.
I just noticed this new KB article: Diskeeper is a 3rd party defragmentation product that has the ability to defragment unmounted NTFS volumes that are presented to the VMware Consolidated Backup proxy. This means that it can defragment RDM LUNs. Unfortunately, this creates the possibility of inconsistencies in the file system if there is a virtual machine running on that [...]
During VMworld I quickly wrote down the steps that VMware vCenter Data Recovery takes when backing up VMs. I added one step which isn’t unimportant, changed block tracking(4): Create a snapshot of disk(s) Hot add disk(s) to Data Recovery appliance Create hashes of (hopefully variable) blocks Read data of changed blocks if previous backup exists Dedupe(using variable chunk sizes) and [...]
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 [...]
