Finally I’ve just finished the complete pdf on “Building a VMware Site Recovery Manager demo with the Netapp simulator” This document will guide you trough the setup of Site Recovery Manager with the Netapp simulator, just on 1 host. I changed a few things since the preview document so ctrl_del the preview document and download the latest one here.
If you have any comments to improve this document please feel free to contact me at tomas@tendam.info.
19-11-08 Update1: Arne from ict-freak.nl asked me: why did you choose for a solaris LUN and not for a Vmware lun at page 29. I made a mistake here, you should use a VMware lun. Updating the document right now
19-11-08 Update2:Updated the document showing a VMware lun at page 29
Update3:A new pdf with another virtual appliance is comming soon click here
18-12-2008 Update 4: John Balsillie, a VCI from australia emailed me about 2 things in the PDF which he found strange. The first thing is about page 37. On this page i am writing: Create instead of 10 gb an 8 gb data store because you might need the storage for the replication I forgot to delete this before publishing, so you can ignore this. Just create 8gb. This was before i did the whole configuration.
The scond thing was on page 23. John found out that the commands where not correct.
To set up snapmirror correctly use these instead:
on NetApp01 – enter “options snapmirror.access host=natapp02”
and
on NetApp02 – enter “options snapmirror.access host=natapp01”
John, thanks very much for noticing these mistakes! I will update the document later.
Download the document here:
However this wil guide you to setup Site Recovery Manager in a box, this is not an indepth guide into SRM. For an indepth guide i have to point you to http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/ Mike Laverick just released his book “Administering VMware’s Site Recovery Manager”




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November 27, 2008 at 12:25 am |
Aaah man this rocks !!
Greetz to everyone who has posted and 10 points to TOMAS << dude you rock!
and finally a message to the planet .. the revolution is coming … .virtualize now … CHICKS DIG IT !!
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[...] seeing all the great post lately with SRM in a box with the EMC Celerra simulator. I came across SRM Demo in a box with the Netapp simulator. This article was written by Tomas Ten Dam over at http://www.tendam.info . He has some great SRM post so [...]
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January 10, 2009 at 4:57 am |
Excellent write up.
Just minor suggestion:
1. When creating the PDF, includes a table of content
2. Add more info on hardware requirement. You mention 6 GB RAM, what about #cores and storage?
3. You may want to try Damn Small Linux as VMs. Much smaller.
Cheers from Singapore!
e1
January 10, 2009 at 7:01 pm |
Hello Iwan,
Thanks for this post. Will include these things in the next version, a few are allready there in draft. I considerd the damn small linux, but ubuntu is easier to understand for non linux users. I will reconsider it, good hint!
Tomas
February 10, 2009 at 12:08 pm |
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April 29, 2009 at 4:43 pm |
Постебался, спасибо за ссылку
May 9, 2009 at 12:22 am |
Очень интересно!!! Только не очень могу понять как часто обновляется ваш блог?