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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 support
• FC & iSCSI Support
• FlexClone support for DR testing

He also ponders on what VMware might want to consider for future releases including:

• Multiple live sites to a single DR site
• Failback as well as Failover
• NFS Support

If you can it is well worth bookmarking his site, or even better using the RSS feed to get the new posts immediately.

I’m sure that most people are either aware of these documents already or would have stumbled across them at some point.  Here though is the link to all the SRM related documentation on the VMware website.

Of particular interest to me was the storage vendor HCL.

NetApp are trying to make sure that they are riding the top of the wave that is being created by SRM. To this end they have started releaseing some technical documents around SRM in NetApp environments.

You can read the first Technical Report here. Running at 42 pages it is pretty in-depth.

I work for Triangle Computer Services who are an IT services company here in the UK. Triangle are a VMware VAC partner which meant I was able to attend a VMware Partner Solution Track last week.

I must say it was one of the best business partner related days I’ve ever been on and VMware really tried to make everyone have a good time.

There was some fun, but mostly a lot of learning and the area that interested me most was Site Recovery Manager. We have customers that are buying into VMware and more specifically ESX 3.5 on the back of the release of SRM alone, that’s how useful this tool is perceived to be. (more…)