Today I began my work with VMware’s DR product, SRM. I’ll be using this tool to migrate a few hundred virtual machines from one datacenter to another, not for DR purposes.
The first issue I ran into took me quite a bit of time to figure out. It turns out that if you are not using [...]
When failing over from a production site to a DR site, the datastores that are mounted on the ESX hosts at your DR site are named using the “snap-xxxxxxx-NAME” naming convention by default.
Per this thread, this was not this way in the SRM beta, but was changed for the GA release so folks would be [...]
Recently, I had an opportunity to install and configure SRM in a test lab, as part of a project related to a datacenter move. VMware Site Recovery Manager is THE tool to utilize when you’re looking to create an automated solution for disaster recovery. One great thing about SRM is that it can be used [...]
