After a few difficulties i have managed to set up a SRM (site recovery manager) in a Box configuration with the free Netapp Simulator. The problem i had in the previous post, was because i had no data in the volume that has to be snapmirrored. So i created a vm and did an snapmirror update and voila, the LUN was shown in the array configuration. Now i have to create a few vm snaps 
before i am going to run the protection plan. Here is a first picture. I will discribe the steps i did in a document as soon as i can.
Update: A complete howto is available now: Get it here
SRM workstation overview
November 9, 2008 at 8:56 pm |
Hi Thomas,
Great work, can’t wait for the follow-up.
Regards,
Eric Sloof
http://www.ntpro.nl
November 10, 2008 at 3:36 am |
absolutely, great work!!
just one thing, how could we test it , if we are not neither a parter nor a customer for NetApp, anyway, we could find something else to try it?
regards
Jose Ruelas
November 10, 2008 at 8:06 am |
[...] Eric ten Dam heeft een blogpost gemaakt over een SRM in a Box setup met VMware Workstation, ESX, vCenter en Netapp. Deze blogpost vind je hier: http://tendam.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/srm-in-a-box-configured/ [...]
November 10, 2008 at 9:14 am |
Hello Jose, only customers or partners have access to the simulator. What you need is a system id or serial number. A other member of the dutch vmug has described a how to with the free available Lefthand Virtual appliance. You can find it here:
http://www.virtuallifestyle.nl/2008/11/vmware-site-recovery-manager-with-lefthand-vsa/