Like me you have probably found finding the storage vendors docs on SRM sometimes tricky to find. So I have been collecting and collating them...
Thanks to Lee Dilworth (Smoggy?) on the forums for handing me the EMC ones:
IF anyone here finds a doc which have found useful, please post it here:
LeftHand Networks SRA for VMware Site Recovery Manager
http://resources.lefthandnetworks.com/forms/VMware-LeftHand-SRA-Download
HP disaster tolerant solutions using Continuous Access for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-0820ENW.pdf
VMware Site Recovery Manager in a NetApp Environment
http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3671.pdf
Disaster Recovery Using Dell Equallogic Ps Series Storage And VMware Site Recovery Manager
Improving VMware Disaster Recovery with EMC RecoveryPoint
Using EMC SRDF Adapter VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC Celerra NS Series and Celerra Replicator Implementation Guide
VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC CLARiiON CX3 and MirrorView Implementation Guide
Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
Co-Author of the vi3book.com and author of a shortly to be released book on VMware's SRM
Hi Mike, yes I am Smoggy aka Lee Dilworth @ vmware
For anyone reading this thinking what are these two going on about a "smoggy" is a slang expression for anyone who lives/is from the town of Middlesbrough in the UK. That is my birthplace and old hometown. I know for a fact Mr Laverick eminates from a town only a stones through from Middlesbrough so Mike i think you almost fall under the same smog cloud? :smileylaugh:
speak soon
Lee
Hi Mike, yes I am Smoggy aka Lee Dilworth @ vmware
For anyone reading this thinking what are these two going on about a "smoggy" is a slang expression for anyone who lives/is from the town of Middlesbrough in the UK. That is my birthplace and old hometown. I know for a fact Mr Laverick eminates from a town only a stones through from Middlesbrough so Mike i think you almost fall under the same smog cloud? :smileylaugh:
speak soon
Lee
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Ah, yes sulphorous old Stockton... For those who don't know Stockton/Mbro (Teesiders) reside in the area of the North-East of England - just a little south of Newcastle (the Geordies of Tyneside) or Sunderland (The Mackums of Wearside) we have a little local feud has been rumbling on for many century. Lee, do you know the Geordie/Macum joke?
"Red sky night - your arriving in Teeside..."
Another claim to fame, is apparently the opening sequences of Bladerunner by Ridley Scott (native of South Shields I believe) were based on his view of the Teeside/Mbro/Stockton area...
Regards
Mike
ps 2nd claim to fame, my Dad painted the blue ICI on the old ICI Billingham site!
pps are wearing a gas mask, Lee - when you go to golf at Scarbough, you know that nuclear plant at Seaton Carew is not far upstream!
Hi,
just to let people know , that EMC have released a Celerra Failback Plug-In tool for SRM that basically automate the entire failback process..
Hi Mike,
First a generic remark: although I do have a valid EMC PowerLink account,
I am not able to directly withdrow documents from the links you supply
However it's not a big deal, as we can search in PowerLink with your supplied information like document numbers to find them
As I'm working through my SRM Plan, Design & Build engagement with EMC storage,
I would like to recommend the following storage related material that I collected (besides your usefull links) thus far:
Using EMC Symmetrix Storage in VMware Virtual Infrastructure Environments - Extended overview of VMware VI & Symmetrix, also very usefull for storage experts managing VI environments
Document ID: H2529
H2529_vmware_esx_svr_w_symmetrix_wp_ldv.pdf
VMware Site Recovery Manager with EMC Symmetrix DMX Series and SRDF - Implementation Guide
Document ID: H5767
h5767-vmware-srm-symmetrix-dmx-series-srdf-implementation-guide.pdf
EMC SRDF Adapter for VMware Site Recovery Manager Version 1.0.1 - Release Notes
Document ID: 300-007-081
300-007-081_a03.pdf
EMC Solutions Enabler version 6.5 Installation Guide - For those working with Symmetrix, like DMX-4,
Needed in conjunction with the SRA
Document ID: 300-002-289
300-002-289_a05_elccnt_0.pdf
EMC Solutions Enabler Symmetrix SRDF Family CLI version 6.5 - Connected to previous document
Document ID: 300-000-877
300-000-877_a10_elccnt_o.pdf
Best regards,
Paul
Hi
I am writing this as an EMC employee
The way PowerLink typically works is that the URL to many documents embeds a portion of the user's specific credentials in the link and hence the link that works for you will not often work for anyone else
A better solution may be to quote the document number as suggested and as well as the name and ideally also provide the 'document location'. See below a typical search result
Release Notes: Celerra VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Failback Plug-in\pdf(0.2 MB) | ||||
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These Release Notes cover the EMC Celerra VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Failback Plug-in, which is a supplemental software package for the VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). | ||||
March 17, 2009 \ | English \ | Content Type: Support: Product Documentation \ |
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The Document location is a link below the document title and details in the search pane. This provides a staged tree breakdown to the location of the document as below
Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Hardware/Platforms Documentation > Celerra Network Server > Release Notes
This tends to be more helpful and can lead you to a direcyory or object level within PowerLink where you can define alerts to be notified of future document releases
Regards
Alex Tanner
Even better if they were in location were didn't need an account to get them 😛
Going to the colo sometime next week. When are free next week in case I get in a jam?
Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147
Hi Mike
There is an awareness within EMC around the lack of transparency in terms of pieces posted on the internal EMC PowerLink and the subset of those documents - such as those with a public tag and more pertinent to us with VMware relevance that should be also accessible from EMC.com.
If you encounter documents that are available from PowerLink and not similarly available from EMC.com could you please send me an email with the document number and I will see about getting it posted to EMC.com if eligilble
Document H2529 is avialable from
Document H5767 is avialable from
Document H4409 is available from
Some of the docuiments such as those with the 300-007-081 style code may be PowerLink specific for customer / partner consumption as they pertain to the specifics of actually implementing an EMC solution as opposed to articulating an EMC approach to a generic business issue such as disaster recovery - but I will check
Many thanks
Alex Tanner
Yup. I remember Chad saying as much when SRM was released. I guess back then the problem was that SRM hadn't reach its GA, so documentation was harder to come back...
Just pulling your leg a little. No offence intended
At the end of the day, its one thing for the docs to be public - but we still find people not taking the time out always read them. I'm as guilty of this myself sometimes. Sometimes I don't RTFM, and find out the hard way too..
Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147
Hello,
Why HP.COM not caring about their Customers whose using HP MSA SAN Storage 1000 or 2000 and release SRA for those Storage? They are mainly focusing on EVA 4000 and 8000, but why they are releasing a tons of WhitePapers of Best Practice implementation HP MSA1000 with VMware and HP MSA 2000 with VMware, ect ect ect. But when it comes to an SRA to be integrated with SRM. The Answer is Sorry.
I know customers who implemented VMware using thier existing MSA 1000 and 2000 and they want to go for SRM, but unfortunately they cannot becuase the SRA is not available yet for this kind of SAN Storage I'm one of those customers who doesn't want to by a new SAN Straoge, and I want to utilize the MSA SAN Storage at our DR Site, but HP.COM doesn't give VMware.com the chance gain more money by allowing the customers who's using MSA SAN Storage to by VMware SRM product.
Best Regards,
Hussain Al Sayed
If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".
For those of you using 3PAR storage with VMware SRM, below are some useful links and documents discussing the 3PAR SRA solution:
3PAR SRA for VMware Site Recovery Manager Overview
3PAR with VMware SRM White Paper
VMware VIOPS: Steps to setup 3PAR Inserv arrays for VMware Site Recovery Manager
Cheers,
Michael
Thanks for the 3PAR Links...
We really need a new post - for update SRA guides for SRM 4.0....
Regards
Mike Laverick
RTFM Education
Author of the SRM Book:http://stores.lulu.com/rtfm
Free PDF or at-cost Hard Copy
Some valuable HP whitepapers and best practices re SRM I was missing on this community site:
HP EVA and vSphere SRM best practices whitepaper:
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA2-8848ENW.pdf
or:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/hp/hp_EVA_vmware_SRM-4AA2-8848ENW.pdf
Several SRM related links that lead to information on several storage related SRA's:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/us/en/solutions/storage-vmware.html
Kind regards,
Paul de Vries