Hi Everyone,

Small disclainmer first that I am an EMC employee.

EMC just announced at EMC World the release of Replication Manager 5.1 sp2. This is huge for us Vmware users. Replication manager will now support VM consistant snaps and clones of VMFS volumes in addition to Individual VM restores from those snaps and clones. You will have the ability to perform a VM snap prior to cloning or snapping the VMFS lun. You will then be able to mount that snap back to the same ESX. This allows you to restore a single VM from 1 Datastor to another. You could also recover the entire datastore from Snap/Clone.

Take a look at the quick demo if you like. EMC also has a ton of whitepapers are RM/Vmware/EMC storage.

Let me know if you have any questions.