Today I performed some failovers with my customer using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and one of requirement was the protection of VMs grouped in vApp. SRM using vSphere Replication or array-based replication can protect VMs from vApp, however, SRM still does not understand vApp (there is no mapping of vApp objects at the recovery site… Read More »
VMware published a new technical white paper with new features of Site Recovery Manager 6.1. There are some useful and long awaited features as follows: Support Stretched Storage and Orchestrated vMotion Enhanced integration with VMware NSX Storage Profile Based Protection As for a quick reminder, Site Recovery Manager enables simplified automation of disaster recovery and… Read More »
This post covers integrating Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with vSphere based replication. There are some others post that you should read before: Site Recovery Manager (SRM): Architecture overview Site Recovery Manager (SRM): installing with embedded database Site Recovery Manager (SRM): installing with external database Installing and configuring vSphere Replication 6.0 After you install SRM and… Read More »