VMware is pleased to announce the integration of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s external storage arrays with VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols). The partnership enables customers running the latest version of Site Recovery Manager, 8.3, to easily protect and efficiently manage their HPE vVols datastores using array-based replication and SRM. “We’re Read more...
vSphere 7 Core Storage With the announcement of vSphere 7, the anticipation of what’s new is over. What has been added or changed in this release? I’m glad you asked! In vSphere 7, there are some exciting new storage features and interoperability. Under core storage, we’ve added external connectivity to NVMe device with NVMeoF, shared Read more...
SRM and vSphere Replication have been available since 2008 and 2012 respectively. They both started as good products and have only gotten better over time. I’m still surprised and impressed by our engineering team’s ability to add significant new capabilities while at the same time keeping the core functionality solid. This post will cover what’s Read more...
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to present VMware Cloud on AWS DRaaS at Cloud Field Day #5. The segment was a full end-to-end product demo of vSphere Site Recovery and featured automating SDDC scale-out on failover. During the session, one of the Cloud Field Day panelists, Ned Bellavance, asked if the script we used in Read more...
I would like to draw your attention to a few sessions at VMworld 2019 that will be particularly exciting, by some of the leaders in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure Business Unit. vSAN and the VMware Cloud Foundation are seeing unprecedented adoption, and these sessions by our business leaders help you understand not just how they work, Read more...
vVols at VMworld 2019, Make Your Mark With the continued development of vVols from VMware, and more importantly storage vendors, the adoption of vVols continues to accelerate. More and more customers are realizing the efficiency and ease of use in managing external storage with Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM). vVols allows policy control of external storage Read more...
Are you looking for code samples as they relate to VMware Storage & Availability? Are you looking for an ad-hoc script to report the overall storage utilization on your vSAN Cluster? Or maybe a script to automate the configuration VMkernel ports services such as vSAN or Replication? StorageHub now includes storage-centric community generated code Read more...
Disaster Recovery never looked so good. Earlier this month VMware released the latest version of Site Recovery Manager. This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Cato Grace to walk us through the details of this release. Links Mentioned Getting them most out of the new SRM appliance Whats new in SRM 8.2 The Read more...
Ever since I started using SRM as a customer in 2010 the thing that I’ve wanted most and the most frequent request of SRM I’ve heard is for SRM to be available as an appliance. I’m so happy to say that all of those desires have now been fulfilled. Site Recovery Manager 8.2 is Read more...
Blog authored by Velina Krasteva, Senior Product Manager, Site Recovery Manager (#SRM) and vSphere Replication at VMware. You spoke, and we heard you! Many of our customers told us they would like to have better capabilities for alerting, monitoring and reporting of VMware Site Recovery Manager and vSphere Replication. Welcome to the improved vRealize Read more...
