Nick Triantos has posted another brilliant post over at his Storage Nuts & Bolts blog about VMware Site Recovery Manager and the adapter that NetApp have created to plug into SRM.
The article talks about what is supported in the SRA (Site Recovery Adapter) including:
SnapMirror integration with SRM
Support for Sync, Async & Semi Sync
Dissimilar H/W configuration [...]
ClusterScale have recently announced a VMware ESX compatible Virtual Applicance that offers almost all the functionality associated with their hardware counterpart.
The VA offers Layer 4-7 functionality and a myriad of features including:
Ultra-High Availability
VMware certified
Rapid deployment and flexibility
You can download a 15 day fully functioning trial version here and can read all about the product here.
I [...]
The guys over at PSS SQL Blog have written a short but really sweet article about how to really detect whether you have a bottleneck with SQL Server implementations.
It gives a few pointers of what to look for if you really start digging including:
PAGE I/O Waits (select * from sys.dm_os_wait_stats where wait_type like ‘%PAGEIO%’)
Virtual File [...]
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