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 [...]

I received the following question a couple of times already; where is my <random vendor+array> SRA? The answer is simple, if it is not on the VMware it has not been certified yet. Every SRA needs to go through a quality assurance process to validate/certify it. If this hasn’t been completed the SRA will not be available for download on [...]

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 [...]

I was at a customer site helping out configuring SRM yesterday. During the configuration of the EMC SRDF SRA(Storage Replication Adapter) we ran into a weird issue. Although we could see the paired arrays with a green “okay sign” we did not see any replicated LUNs. First things I usually check in these cases are: Is the LUN already formatted [...]

Just noticed three SRAs were updated. Might be worth checking out: EMC Symmetrix Storage Replication Adapter Version 2.0.0.21 | Released 04/20/2009 Fixed : SRDF Adapter for VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM) times out while trying to enumerate LUNs from a local Symmetrix array. LSI Storage Replication Adapter Version 1.00.30.12| Released 04/01/2009 Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter 2 Version 1.0.8| Released 03/24/2009 [...]

I just noticed this SRM update, it’s just a small patch but looking at the problems it corrects it might be beneficial to upgrade! Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 Patch 3 Latest Release Version: 1.0.1.2587 | 04/09/09 | 154949 This patch corrects the following problems: a problem that prevents protected virtual machines from following recommended Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) [...]

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 [...]