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Joe Kelly and I have submitted to speak at VMworld about RecoverPoint and Site Recovery Manager.  It should be an excellent session based on our experience in the field with the products so it won’t just be a feature overview, but actual information you can take back and use.  Joe is the man on this [...]

As I’m flying back to North Carolina from my one whole day at EMC World I was thinking a bit about the announcements that EMC has made this week.  VPLEX is a very interesting product and I was going over possible use cases in my head. If money was no object, or if you needed [...]

Just a little tip in case someone else hits this.  If you have an ESX host that can’t scan for updates or gets the following error in vCenter check the DNS config:
Host cannot download files from VMware vCenter Update Manager patch store.  Check the network connectivity and firewall setup, and check esxupdate logs for details.
This [...]

So I was playing with SRM in our new Charlotte lab.  I must say, it’s nice having a couple of EMC Celerra NS20s all to yourself.  Anyway…I hit a problem with the SRA when configuring Site Recovery Manager and thought I’d pass along a little note.  The error I got was:
Invalid XML returned from storage [...]

Greetings from a Starbucks at the Charlotte airport.  I’m here waiting to board my flight to Boston for a week at the EMC office.  Last night I put together a quick video showing how to configure an iSCSI target and LUN on an EMC Celerra and then connect to that LUN from a Windows host.

Celerra [...]

Recently I have set up a SRM environment in a virtual lab for testing and performing demos.  I took the opportunity to create a video giving an overview of Site Recovery Manager.  The video walks through a normal configuration and then a test failover.  It’s a simple environment but will give someone a complete picture [...]