VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus Bundle and SRM

[kingwahwah]

hi,

working on a project and i'm at the sales quote stage. I am new the vmware. I have read that SRM will not license for the bundle. My project manager raised this with the reseller and they said it could be easily upgraded for a price to support SRM. Mmmm.

6 month rollout project:

stage 1  Site 1 = 2 hosts/1 iSCSI SAN, VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus Bundle. HA for SQL failover is key.

stage 2  Site 2 = 2 hosts/1 iSCSI SAN, VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus Bundle. HA for SQL failover is key.

stage 3  Site 1<->2, SAN replication. UPGRADE Vsphere!. SITE RECOVERY manager

(hosts have 1 quad core but could be 2 later.)

Going to advise project manager to challenge the upgrade price.

Do you see any problems other than price and upgrade risk?

I am assumming at stage 2 completion each vCentre can only manage it sites hosts. The upgrade should resolve this.

Did search first. Thanks in advance.

[AndreTheGiant]

Check SRM requirements... As I remember it require a vCenter Standard on both site.

Andre

[kingwahwah]

This is what I found before.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/srm_compat_matrix_4_1.pdf

"ESX and vSphere Server Requirements
SRM 4.0 and later are compatible with:
 VMware vSphere Standard, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus editions
 VMware Infrastructure Enterprise, Foundation, and Standard editions"

The reseller has now come back today advising customer on new options and real end game prices if hes requires SRM.

VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus to vSphere 5 Enterprise Acceleration Kit Upgrade

or

vSphere 4 Advanced Acceleration Kit  to vSphere 5 Enterprise Acceleration Kit

Later is a free upgrade but much higher initial cost but lower overall cost.

Of course customers quote has gone from £££ to £££££ in total project spend. He'll have to decide what to do, certainly I'll suggest he doesnt actually upgrade mid-project.

back on the technical....

My question was about bundle 4 to a vsphere 4 version with SRM 4 and the risks. As 5 version is unknown and being as its .0 this thread may have run its course.

PS this all helps my learning of vmware world.