I’ve been disconnected from the internet the last couple of days because of a UPC screw up. So I missed out on all the SRM blogging. I am just reading all the new blogs that were created over the last couple of days. Here are just a couple random thoughts…
- The SRM docs talk about a “proteced” and a “recovery” site. Does this mean that SRM always needs an “active/passive” setup. In other words, can I only use 1 SAN for production.
Why? Well I could imagine that one would benefit from having some sort of load balancing with 2 VirtualDatacenters and 2 active SAN’s. Not only will the uptime increase, because if a site fails only half will failover, but also performance will be less of an issue having half of your active vm’s running on another SAN and cluster. And I’m not even gonna talk about TCO when half of your environment is doing nothing. - What about the VirtualCenter licensing? Do I need 2 VirtualCenter Licenses?
- What about failing back? I played around with a beta and there’s no automated option for a fail back at this moment, when will it be available?
- What about a third site? Think about switching datacenters every week or so for the insurance / banking industry. (Think Anti-Terrorism.)