SRM in a Box final release (the complete setup)

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:

SRM in a Box Final

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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  6. Dennis Harding Says:

    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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  16. iwan rahabok Says:

    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

  17. tendam Says:

    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

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  19. fauksiles Says:

    Постебался, спасибо за ссылку ;)

  20. Vennylally Says:

    Очень интересно!!! Только не очень могу понять как часто обновляется ваш блог?

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