All posts tagged SRM

Failover difference with SRM4 and SRM5 on HDS VSP

This blog post highlights the technical difference on how vCenter SRM4 and SRM5 do failover with Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform (HDS VSP). Credits to Saravanan Mahalingam for delivering this information. SRM 4 SRM4 does not support failback operation SRM4 uses horctakeover command for failover operation. Horctakeover command fails over to remote site and reverses the replication automatically when the […]

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by on June 18, 2013  •  Permalink
Posted in SRM, Storage, vSphere
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Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on June 18, 2013

https://virtualkenneth.com/2013/06/18/differences-between-srm4-and-srm5-using-hds-storage/

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

https://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

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