I was thinking about one of the most challenging aspects with DR procedures, IP changes. This is a very common problem. Although changing the IP address of a VM is usually straight forward it doesn’t mean that this is propagated to the application layer. Many applications use hardcoded IP addresses and changing these is usually a huge challenge. But what about using [...]
** 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 would like to ask all of you to look at this Survey for Site Recovery Manager. This survey is closing on the 30th of September already, so if you have a couple of minutes left please fill it out! Here’s the link: http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?E5C1ADB7E3A2B4BEE1
During VMworld I received multiple questions around support for vSphere Storage DRS with vSphere Site Recovery Manager (SRM), we even had this question during our session and my answer was “Yes it does”. During some of the other sessions presenters stated that it was unsupported. Scott Lowe also mentions recalling the fact that it was mentioned somewhere down the line [...]
I am live at the Launch event in San Francisco with many other bloggers, journalists and analysts. It is the 12th of July, almost 09:00 PDT and Paul Maritz is about come up on stage to talk about the Cloud Infrastructure launch. This article will be update live during the event as we go. Paul Maritz is taking the stage… [...]
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 [...]
