Michael Gordon Laverick - Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0

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This book is dedicated to Carmelfor putting up with me and my endless ramblings about virtualization.

This edition of Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 is not only a new edition of this book but one of the first books published by VMware Press.

Version 5.0 represents a major milestone in the development of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). The need to write a book on SRM 5.0 seems more pressing than ever because of the many new features and enhancements in this version. I think these enhancements are likely to draw to the product a whole new raft of people who previously may have overlooked it. Welcome to the wonderful world that is Site Recovery Manager!

This is a complete guide to using SRM. The version of both ESX and vCenter that we use in the book is 5.0. This book was tested against the ESX5i release. This is in marked contrast to the first edition of this book and the SRM product where ESXi was not initially supported. In the previous edition of the book I used abstract names for my vCenter structures, literally calling the vCenter in the Protected Site virtualcenterprotectedsite.rtfm-ed.co.uk. Later I used two cities in the United Kingdom (London and Reading) to represent a Protected Site and a Recovery Site. This time around I have done much the same thing. But the protected location is New York and the recovery location is New Jersey. I thought that as most of my readers are from the United States, and there isnt a person on the planet who hasnt heard of these locations, people would more quickly latch on to the scenario. ) being used in New York and New Jersey. Each site has its own Microsoft Active Directory domain controller, and there is a router between the sites. Each site has its own vCenter, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and SRM Server. In this case I chose not to use the linked mode feature of vCenter 5; I will introduce that configuration later in the book. I made this decision merely to keep the distinction clear: that I have two separate locations or sites.

Figure P.1 Two vCenter environments side by side

I have a very clear idea of the kind of person reading this book. Ideally, you have been working with VMware vSphere for some timeperhaps you have attended an authorized course in vSphere 4 such as the Install, Configure and Manage class, or even the Fast Track class. On top of this, perhaps you have pursued VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification. So, what am I getting at? This is not a dummys or idiots guide to SRM. You are going to need some background, or at least read my other guides or books, to get up to speed. Apart from that, I will be gentle with youassuming that you have forgotten some of the material from those courses, such as VMFS metadata, UUIDs, and VMFS resignaturing, and that you just have a passing understanding of storage replication.