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.

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 [...]

EMC just announced that they are adding automated failbacks to SRM for their Celerra family via a vCenter plugin. I hope I can see a demo here at VMworld: VMware Site Recovery Manager Automated Failback via a VMware vCenter plug-in helps Celerra customers coordinate a “failback” to the original virtual infrastructure, including all the process steps once VMware Site Recovery [...]

I just got off the phone with a former colleague. He was implementing SRM at a customer site and couldn’t get it working correctly because the VMFS volumes weren’t discovered at the recovery site. As most of you know sometimes you need to rescan your HBA’s twice before the LUNs and orVMFS volumes are discovered. When using SRM the rescan [...]

I was just reading up on VMTN and noticed this great topic. For some reason there are a lot of people that don’t see the difference between HA and SRM. I suggest reading the full topic and especially Jay Judkowitz’s replies and Smoggy’s reply, both are Subject Matter Experts on SRM and explained the topic starter what the differences are [...]

I get this question a lot:Does SRM have Failback capabilities? The answer is short but not simple, yes it does. Keep in mind that there’s no big red button labeled “Failback” which is the “not simple” part of the answer. Luckily for us the VMware Uptime Blog Team wrote an extensive article on how to do a failback with the [...]