All posts tagged SRM

VM Swapfile (.vswp) placement with SRM

Nowadays VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) gets implemented more and more and like vSphere, VMware SRM needs a good architectural design before starting off. One of the design considerations is around the placement of the Virtual Machine Swap File (.vswp) which I want to give some more information about in this article. Let’s first take [...]

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by on June 29, 2011  •  Permalink
Posted in Design, SRM, VMware Design, vSphere
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Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on June 29, 2011

http://virtualkenneth.com/2011/06/29/vm-swapfile-vswp-placement-with-srm/

VMFS Datastore Permissions, useful for SRM

Lately I visited a customer who, depending on their customers SLA, provided either SRM protected VM’s (SLA-1) or non-SRM protected VM’s (SLA-2). The technical difference between these SLA’s is that SRM protected VM’s must be placed on LUN’s that are replicated between storage arrays. Different departments are responsible for creating either SLA-1 or SLA-2 VM’s and operational procedures are in place to make sure that the right [...]

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by on May 18, 2010  •  Permalink
Posted in SRM, VMFS, VMware vCenter, VMware VirtualCenter, vSphere
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Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on May 18, 2010

http://virtualkenneth.com/2010/05/18/vmfs-datastore-permissions-usefull-for-srm/