HP StoreVirtual & SRM – Case Of The Missing Datastores
Problem Statement Datastores do not show under Array Managers > Devices and therefore you cannot create Protection Groups. Replicated datastores have virtual machines within them and replication has...
View ArticleSRM: Reprotect Unsupported
When VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 was launched back September 2011 a new feature set was added to give you the ability to perform ‘automated re-protection’ and ‘automated failback’ using array...
View Article3PAR StoreServ & Site Recovery Manager Expected Behaviour
Purpose The purpose of this post is to document the expected behaviour of the 3PAR StoreServ 7×00 and VMware Site Recovery Manager in both a ‘planned failover’ and ‘unplanned failover’. Envrionment The...
View ArticleHow To: Perform a SRM Unplanned Failover & Maintain ‘Business As Usual’...
Purpose The purpose of this blog post is to provide the steps required to perform a Site Recovery Manager unplanned failover and maintain business as usual operations. I performed these steps twice on...
View ArticleUpgrading vSphere 5.5 ‘Simple Install’ with SRM and Linked Mode to vSphere 6
A fairly common deployment topology with vSphere 5.5 was to use the ‘Simple Install’ method which placed all the individual vCenter components onto a virtual or physical vCenter Server. This would then...
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