Comments on: 3183: VMware SRM on NetApp Storage

By: Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:09:58 +0000

Looks like SRM 4 in today’s news means NFS, including NetApp, is ready to go! Any takers?

By: Vikash Kumar Roy

Vikash Kumar Roy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:32:50 +0000

I had a discussion last week along with VMware and Netapp representative. NetApp told me that there are some patch which will make SRM1.0.1 to support NFS.
My current customer is very much interested to go NFS route since someone from NetApp told him that you can have privilege of Data Deduplication.
I know that SRM V4 does support NFS but current VMware environment has not yet reached there yet.
Could you give me some insight of not using NFS with SRM?

By: slowe

slowe — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:24:11 +0000

Fletch,

Last I heard, NFS support for SRM had been pushed back until later this year. I have no idea about vFiler support in SRM.

By: Fletch

Fletch — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:55:50 +0000

Hi, I’d like to know if
“NetApp again re-iterated that they anticipate seeing NFS support in VMware SRM somewhere in the March 2009 timeframe.”
is on track
Also, will vfilers be supported in the SRM ?

thanks

By: Sanman

Sanman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:12:32 +0000

Russel
Could you post your experience with SRA to use SSL.

By: slowe

slowe — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:37:17 +0000

Russell, I’d love to see your notes. Send them over to me. Thanks!

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:03:56 +0000

Hey Scott,

I actually just recently did a proof of concept for one of my customers using SRM with NetApp as a storage platform. We ran into no end of hitches (for example, I had to go through some tomfoolery to get the SRA to use SSL with my filers) but got them all worked out.

I would be happy to share notes with you if you’re interested.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:01:52 +0000

Hi Scott, take a look on my SRM in a box document. I’ve managed to setup a Site Recovery Manager demo setup with only virtual esx servers, virtual netapp simulators and virtual windows 2003 servers. All installed on one host in VMware workstation 6.5.1. I desrcibed the setup in a pdf at

http://www.tendam.info

Cool to test en discover how srm works without the need for all the hardware

Tomas

By: Damien Gill

Damien Gill — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:04:33 +0000

Hi Scott , big fan of the blog its a great resource please keep up the great work

Id just like to point out that SRM is actually supported running on SQL 2005 Express according to the documentation.
Im currently in the process of setting it up for a customer and im using the default SQL Express install that virtual center installs, so far no problems.

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VMware SRM on NetApp Storage — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:49:35 +0000

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