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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 [...]

VMware has released version 1.01 of the Data Recovery product.  The release notes are here.  Why the post about a .01 update?  Because this fixes the snapshot issue from 1.0 where sometimes snapshots would hang around after backups were finished, as noted here from Scott Lowe’s blog.  The real problem was that they didn’t show [...]

With the release of VMware’s vSphere 4.0 there comes some great features and additions.  One that hasn’t gotten as much attention as others is the Data Recovery feature.  While FT (Fault Tolerance) is cool and flashy, Data Recovery is probably useful to more people, especially in smaller shops.
So, what is Data Recovery?  It’s the new [...]

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 [...]