I was delivering a Site Recovery Manager Jumpstart today. During the configuration of the Storage Replication Adapter(SRA) the task got stuck at 23%. I’ve seen the configuration of the SRA get stuck once before at 23% so I knew it was the “DiscoverLuns” command that failed for one reason or the other. We ran the configuration of the SRA again [...]

I was just reading an excellent weekly technical digest by VMware’s Michael White and noticed the mention of a KB article on SRM. This KB article has the following describtion: With VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1, recovery of a VM might take a long time.  The recovery time during a test or real recovery will be longer when [...]

Today I was implementing Site Recovery Manager with a colleague(Thanks Andy!!). During the configuration of the HP EVA SRA(Storage Replication Adapter) we received the following error: discoverLuns script failed to execute properly The error indicates that that the first part of the SRA configuration “discoverArrays” worked but when discovering the LUN’s and it’s replica’s it bailed out(23%). So after checking [...]

Yesterday VMware released a patch for the Site Recovery Manager Client: Client Patch for Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 This client patch for Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 corrects a performance problem observed at sites that support more than seven ESX hosts. If you are running SRM, it might worth downloading the patch and installing it! The download [...]

When we were playing around with Site Recovery Manager last week we had the opportunity to ask a bunch of questions to Lee Dilworth. Lee is a Specialist System Engineer for Site Recovery Manager. During the discussion Lee told us about a document that Horst Mundt, also a VMware employee, wrote about using trusted certificates. We received the document via email [...]

When reading several SRM docs I was wondering if Microsoft Clustering was supported or not. I knew that in version 1.0 it wasn’t supported. When reading the Release Notes I noticed the following: Full Support for RDM devices SRM now provides full support for virtual machines that use raw disk mapping (RDM) devices. This enables support of several new configurations, [...]

I’ve been playing around with Site Recovery Manager these last couple of days. Installing it was really easy and same goes for the basic configuration. I already wrote a blog about this topic a month ago or so but now I’ve experienced it myself. Most of the time during a Site Recover Manager project will be spent during the Plan [...]