Uptime (VMware and Business Continuity)

When VMware demonstrated a technology preview of the new Site Recovery Manager (SRM) features at VMworld 2009 a month back, significant portion of the audience during the VMworld SRM sessions indicated that they were waiting on NFS support to deploy SRM. Several customers said that they are waiting for SRM support to deploy vSphere 4.0 in production. We heard loud and clear how important these features are for your organization. I am excited that today we have delivered vSphere 4.0 and NFS support as a part of SRM 4.0 GA release. 

This release would not have been possible without the involvement of our beta customers and partners. On behalf of the SRM team, I would like to send a thank you note to all the SRM 4.0 beta customers, storage partners and channel partners, who tested the SRM 4.0 beta product and provided us with valuable feedback during the SRM beta process. I also want to thank the storage partners who helped recruit participants for the SRM 4.0 beta program.

I am happy to share some great comments from beta participants:

“In my 25 years of IT experience, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is one of the best solutions that I have ever implemented.  With the latest SRM improvements and features, coupled with vSphere, disaster recovery preparation is much easier.” – Ed Belliveau, Principal Systems Engineer, Bentley University

“VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is the industry-leading product for automated disaster recovery of virtual environments”, Hany Michael, Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation

We hope you will try out SRM 4.0 release in your vSphere environment and look forward to your feedback and comments. You can download SRM 4.0 here.  Please be sure to check out the release notes and documentation as well as other VMware Uptime blogs ("A quick tour of SRM 4.0"  as well as "SRM 4.0 is here! The wait for vSphere and NFS support is over") to learn more about new SRM 4.0 features as well as upgrading to SRM 4.0.

Thanks again.