One problem with using the Netapp VSC for backup and restore was that the VSC could only restore from backups that it knew that it took. This was also an advantage for Veeam, Veeam could do a restore (via flexcloning the volume) of any Netapp snapshot. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to pursue Veeam any further,… Read More »
Last week I found out that my abstract has been accepted as an official session for VMworld in San Francisco! I original blogged about submitting an abstract here. The title is: STO4856 Designing for Mass Failover with Site Recovery Manager: Lessons Learned from a Customer Deployment Last year I was invited to take part in… Read More »
The release of the PowerCLI SRM cmdlets have enabled the admin to automate reporting and protection tasks without having to use .NET or java. Ben Meadowcroft (former PM for SRM) has a github site where he created a lot of functions using PowerCLI, these are very handy to start your SRM automation journey. One thing… Read More »
I’m not sure who enjoys using the Perl debugger on Windows (certainly not I), but the process is still interesting. The Situation: So you are adding an array manager for a Netapp CMODE array, you hit click “Enable” but then you get an error. SRA command ‘discoverDevices’ failed. Storage system configuration error ensure that the… Read More »
In my last post, I discussed some issues I had when changing the DB password for Site Recovery Manager. I just wanted to quickly discuss a different error that I had during my couple of days of password changes. One of the tasks that you will have to do when changing passwords is to re-pair… Read More »
Who doesn’t love changing password right? Since I own the SRM implementation, I was sent a compliance task to change all of the passwords. With SRM there are up to five passwords typically: Password that runs the Windows SRM Service (this is helpful so that you can run scripts on the SRM server in the same context) Password… Read More »