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 [...]
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Where should you get SRA’s from?
December 18th, 2009
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SRM 4.0; where is my SRA?
October 28th, 2009
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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 [...]
SRDF SRA and the SPC-2 bit
July 21st, 2009
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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 [...]
SRM: Three updates, EMC / LSI / Hitachi SRA
April 27th, 2009
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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 added one [...]
SRM 1.0 Update 1, patch 3
April 16th, 2009
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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 [...]
SRM Patch released
February 27th, 2009
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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 [...]
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