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SRM 8.3 & vSphere Replication 8.3 walk through

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:58:19 +0000

SRM 8.3 and vSphere Replication 8.3 bring in long awaited features,UI changes, security and performance improvements. In this blog we shall be going over some of the features and enhancements which you may consider to upgrade from the previous releases to this version as soon as possible as these features helps to reduce a lot of manual work and adds value to your every day task. I have not covered steps to deploy VR and SRM appliances as I have already written a blog post for Install-Configure-migrate-SRM-VR-8.2, you may follow same steps for deployment and configuration.

How to Install,Configure and Migrate to Site Recovery Manager 8.2 ?

Sat, 11 May 2019 19:13:49 +0000

This guide will walk you thru all the new features about SRM 8.2 and vSphere Replication and steps to install , configure , manage and migrate to SRM 8.2 . Also covers all the new functionalities around vSphere Replication Aplliance 8.2

How to Install , Configure and Manage SRM 8.2 and VR 8.2 ?
How to migrate from Windows based SRM to SRM-Appliance?
Methods to install SRA on the new SRM-VA.
How to configure replication for Encrypted Virtual machines?

I am really exited about the new version of Site recovery manager 8.2 which now comes with an Appliance version and bring in “All New Experience” to the administrators to easily deploy and manage SRM .

How to Re-Config Replication with existing seed on vSAN

Tue, 02 Oct 2018 02:56:15 +0000

I have been asked about re-configuring replication for a VM without deleting the destination folder for a VM which is already replicated . In a traditional storage , we were simply renaming the folders on the destination datastore (Can be a local or a remote site) , we used to re-name the folder at the target site , perform a force stop replication at source and target site and simply re-configure replication to the same folder using existing seeds to avoid a full-sync between the two sites .

How to install and configure Site Recovery 8.1?

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:35:36 +0000

New Blog Post for “How to install , configure and Migrate to SRM 8.2” ,if you are interested to deploy SRM 8.2 instead of SRM 8.1 .

SRM 8.2 comes with the appliance edition and is far more easier and faster to deploy and configure . This was just released in May 2019 .

Site recovery Manager 8.1 and vSphere Replication 8.1 is available out in the market for quite sometime . Here is my First impressions and a simple guide to deploy -configure Site recovery Manager and vSphere replication 8.1 , comparison with older version and conclusion .

How to configure Pool, Luns, replication and SRA for SRM -UnityVSA

Sun, 18 Jun 2017 16:20:04 +0000

So far you must have seen , how to deploy and complete UnityVSA initial configuration here . Now lets see How to configure Pool, Luns and SRA for SRM -UnityVSA .This is a perfect and easy solution to configure Array based replication LAB for SRM .

Lets get Started !!

Step 1 : Add a new virtual disk to Unity-VSA from vSphere

Right click your UnityVSA virtual machine , allocate a new virtual disk to be used for pool creation . Please note for the free Edition the disk size can only go up to 4 TB . You will need to do the same process at both sites .

vVOL lab setup , SRM Array based replication using UnityVSA

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:19:28 +0000

How to build a perfect vVOL lab setup , SRM Array based replication using UnityVSA . All you need is the DELL-EMC Unity VSA latest version , which can be downloaded here as an OVA . Once you have that downloaded , you will now proceed to deploy that on you ESXi host (5.5 and above) , please make sure that you have enough resource on the host 12GB RAM and 2 vCPU available to get this booted up successfully . This guide shows you how you can configure vVOL lab setup , SRM Array based replication UnityVSA . Please feel free to comment on this article if you could not find what you were looking for and if you have any suggestions.