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. [...]

One of my colleagues, Michael White, just pointed out that VMware released a patch for Site Recovery Manager: Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 Patch 4 File size: 7.9 MB File type: .msi Here are the most important fixes: a problem that could cause a recovery plan to fail and log the message Panic: Assert Failed: “_pausing” @ d:/build/ob/bora-172907/santorini/src/recovery/secondary/recoveryTaskBase.cpp:328 a [...]

I receive this great newsletter via email every week from Michael White, he’s one of our Specialist SE’s. Michael created a great VMware SRM document and this FAQ is part of it. I want to thank Michael for sharing it with the rest of the world. Generic I want to install SRM, what do I need to do? It is [...]

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 [...]

A couple of weeks ago I published an article on the maximum amount of VMs one could run on a ESX host. In short; if you enabled HA on your cluster it restricts the amount of VMs you can run on a host depending on the total amount of hosts in the cluster. This means that depending on your consolidation [...]

Every time I do a Site Recovery Manager jumpstart or start a project the same questions pops up. What port numbers must be open for SRM and VirtualCenter / vCenter Server to be able to communicate? kb.vmware.com/kb/1006738: The following ports are used for the respective products and must be open for remote communication: VMware VirtualCenter / vCenter Server: 80 (HTTP) [...]

One of my customers recently asked if it was possible to change the time-out for a power state change, at the same time this question was asked and answered on an internal mailing list. I thought it would be nice to document it. An example of a power state change task would be the shutdown that is initiated by SRM [...]