SRM does not do consistent replication. In fact, it doesn't manage backup, snapshots or replication at all. It manages failover.
Yes, there's an SRA (adapter) for SnapMirror for SRM. The adapter does the tricks of breaking mirrors (or cloning datastores if you want to simply test without breaking the mirror), mapping LUNs to igroups for the DR servers, etc.
The adapter is free on the NOW downloads page. You buy SRM from VMware, of course.
Peter
I guess one key factor is that VIBE is free(ish) and unsupported(?) from what I've read but SMVI is a supported product at a commercial price-point.
Anyone tried the VMWare Site Recovery Manager tool ? Is there a NetApp integration component in the works (my understanding is the product leverages SAN vendor API's to ensure consistant intersite replication of VM's) ?
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM, oakley
<oakerz@lycos.com> wrote:
How difficult is VIBE to implement though? I had a brief conversation with my SE and with a NetApp Virtualization Architect and both highly suggested using Professional Services to do it. Also, and I've barely done any reading on it, does VIBE give you all of the same benefits that SM-VI does? If not, what are the primary differences? What experiences, good/bad, have you had with it?
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Subject : RE: Any luck with SnapMirror & ESX LUN's ?
Date : Thu, 14 May 2009 10:51:46 -0700
>From : Ken Williams <kwillia@smud.org>
To : "Learmonth, Peter" <Peter.Learmonth@netapp.com>, "Raj Patel" <phigmov@gmail.com>, <toasters@mathworks.com>
VIBE is also an option for those who aren't ready to take the plunge to SMVI.
VIBE is available if you have an active NOW account under downloads>tool chest.
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