VMware SRM 1.0 Update 1 Released

Friday, December 5, 2008 in Virtualization by slowe | 2 comments

Many thanks to Dave Lawrence, aka VMguy, for the heads-up: Update 1 for VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 has been released. Missing in this update: NFS support. I mention that only because I heard numerous references to NFS Support in SRM 1.0U1 at NetApp Insight a few weeks ago. Of course, they also mentioned a March 2009 timeframe, so I was a bit surprised when I saw that Update 1 had been released.

However, there are plenty of other goodies besides NFS support available in Update 1 of SRM 1.0:

  • SRM has separated the permission to test a recovery plan and to actually run a recovery plan. This allows more junior admins to test the plan, but reserve actually running the plan for a more senior admin, for example.
  • RDM support, which enables failover for MSCS clusters
  • Batch IP property customization

And more, but for the all the details, see Dave’s post or the Release Notes!

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  1. Channel-V (Roel Gydé)’s avatar

    Channel-V (Roel Gydé) on Friday, December 5, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Hi Scott,

    Nice to know, but if I am not mistaken SRM no longer exists ;-) … isn’t it called VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

    But hey, what’s in the name, personally I am often still talking about Citrix Presentation Server instead of Citrix XenApp or Virtual Center instead of vCenter Server

    Rebranding … a nice to have
    Products that function … a must have

    Regards,

    Roel Gydé
    (Channel-V)

  2. Cody Bunch’s avatar

    Cody Bunch on Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Woot! RDM Support!

    Thanks for the update Scott.