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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