Hello all,
This question has been raised a few times lately, and I thought I would try to give the answer a little broader distribution.
Yes, as of vSphere 4.1 Update 1, we have included VMware Data Recovery (vDR) with the Standard product edition, which means all of the editions now include vDR. You can see more detail here.
What is not in that nice chart is that if your subscription is current, people that bought Standard before Update 1 also are able to download vDR and use it without additional purchase. This is only true if they have maintained their subscription which is most generally true.
vDR is a great product and I am glad more of our customers get to use it now!
Michael
Very interesting. Curious What’s the best way to make an SRM server highly-available? Thanks!
Hi Jason,
We do not have a product, like Heartbeat, that can protect SRM. However, you can use SRM to protect SRM. There are alarms you can set in SRM to watch the other SRM server it is paired with and alert you to issues. This is, for the most part, the extent of what you can do within SRM. You can use external monitoring tools from other vendors too.
Michael
Where to get help with installing this? Is there a community or blog for this product? VMWare instructions don’t work so far.
Hi Chris,
Are you saying the manual is no help? Have you been able to download the ISO? Inside it is a .msi that you should install on your vSphere workstation, and than use the File \ Deploy Appliance menu option and browse out to the ISO for the .ova / .ovf file to deploy it. As well, and maybe better, you can call support for help.
Michael