SRM vSphere support

[gboskin]

i recently read somewhere that the release of vSphere will of course be available with vCenter for basic management and automation tasks but the rest of VMware's great product suite is not supported in the initial release of vSphere.

So there won't be support for:

• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Can someone please confirm when SRM will be supported by vSphere.

[TomHowarth · Accepted solution]

That is correcct, vSphere does not support the current release of SRM or View etc

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[Michelle_Laveri]

As i understand it the beta prog for SRM 1.5 starts in July.

Delivery - 2H of 2009 is the most I have...

Regards

Mike Laverick

RTFM Education

http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

Author of the SRM Book: http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

[jbock]

Beacuse vSphere 4 is a major new release of the ESX platform with lots of changes and tweaks, many of the VMware products will require an update before they will be supported with vSphere 4. SRM is one of the products that will require an update. Dates for the updates depend on the product release schedule for each product. For SRM, we plan to release an update in the second half of 2009 that will provide compatibility with vSphere 4. More details on exactly when will come out as we get closer to release of that update.

[andreaspa]

I think it's too bad that SRM wasn't updated and released the same time as vSphere 4.0, this is truly a great addition to the regular VMware software suite. We use SRM, and will have to wait for SRM 1.5 in order to upgrade to vSphere 4.0. We miss a lot of benefits with vSphere 4 just because of that

[jbock]

We would like nothing better than to have immediate compatibility of all of the add-on products on day 1 of GA of every platform (i.e. ESX and vCenter Server) release. For minor and maintenance releases, we've made significant strides in having compatibility close to GA of ESX/vCenter Server (SRM compatibility with ESX 3.5 U4 was posted a few days after U4 released, for example). For major platform releases (e.g. an x.0 release), we're similar to platforms like OSs or databases in that if the major release has significant changes we need to release an update to products that build on that platform in order to deliver on compatibility. We'll continue to work to shorten the time lag for compatibility, but at the same time feel that there are a lot of good reasons not to hold back the release of the platform to wait for compatibility updates to be complete.

In this case our advice is by all means start testing and getting familiar with vSphere 4 (in your environments that aren't protected by SRM and have their own vCenter Server, of course) as well as start planning for how you'll roll vSphere 4 for your SRM-protected environment. Check with your VMware contacts to see if getting into the beta of future SRM releases will help your planning. Then when the SRM update is released you'll be ready to start upgrading to vSphere 4 and using SRM with that environment right away.

Note that we've posted a vSphere 4 compatibility matrix at to help people understand what's compatible with what.

--Jon

[Iuridae]

Any new date on the release of SRM 1.5 with vSphere support?

[andreaspa]

I've heard Q3 2009 or 2H 2009..

[jbock]

We haven't made any announcement yet of the date for vSphere support, but we did demo a preview of SRM support for vSphere at VMworld.

--Jon

[andreaspa]

Yeah, too bad that I were unable to attend VMworld in SF. It's looking more and more like a release in Q4, it's only 3 weeks left of Q3 now

[jbock]

Today VMware announced the release of Site Recovery Manager 4, which includes support for vSphere 4. For more details take a look at the docs at http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/srm_pubs.html.

Thanks,

Jon