Bernie (Bernie – you’re a STAR – THANK YOU!) has worked with many folks and done an update of the Celerra VSA-based “Site Recovery Manager in a can” document – it’s now version 2!
While long…. it’s long because it’s VERY explicit, and VERY comprehensive.
Download the latest guide by clicking on the doc below:
It covers:
- How to install and configure the Celerra VSAs (you can get the Celerra VSA here) – including all the steps, adding more storage, etc.
- How to leverage HW virtualization offloads to accelerate the Celerra VSA (and it’s MUCH faster) if you’re running it on VMware Workstation 6.5 or later or vSphere 4 (you can find that here)
- How to configure replication between Celerra VSAs
- How to install and configure the latest Site Recovery Manager builds
- How to install and configure the awesome EMC Automated SRM Failback vCenter plugin.
More coming:
- The next SRM rev is in beta and adds vSphere support for SRM and NFS support (and other things), and there is a beta Celerra SRA that adds this support (and works with the same Celerra VSA that you have now…). If you are in the beta, you have this code, but as soon as it GAs, we’ll do an update to include NFS.
- The vast majority of the Celerra VSA complexity is rooted in reconfiguring it to be unique after cloning it. We’re working to make this automated, as it would make it a lot easier to use.
Comments/feedback are always welcome!
My pleasure!
Posted by: Bernie Baker | July 14, 2009 at 07:26 PM
When can we expect to see the CLARiiON automated failback snapin?
I heard end of June, but not seen anything so far...
Can you come to the rescue again Chad?
Cheers, Craig.
Posted by: Craig Waters | July 19, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Craig - you'll be happy to hear that we're getting there on that one to (also working the SRDF one). TARGET (please respect that it's a target) is Q3 for the CLARiiON SRM automated failback similar to the Celerra Replicator variant.
Taking a look at the code this week.
Posted by: Chad Sakac | July 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I installed the Celerra Failback tool on my recovery site vCenter / Site Recovery Manager server and now if I click on the Site Recovery Manager plugin, I get an invalid SSL error and cannot work with SRM. If I click on the EMC Failback Tool and accept the cert warning first, I can then go back and view the Site Recovery Manager Plugin - seen anything like this?
Posted by: sky | August 04, 2009 at 06:30 PM
Sky - we have never seen this issue and have been able to use both SRM and the Celerra SRM Failback plug-in with no problem. If you like you can send to nastoolsupport@emc.com more details on this and we will be happy to review your specific case more closely.
Posted by: Yossi Mesika | August 05, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Any word on the CLARiiON SRM automated failback snapin? Has it been released yet?
Posted by: Greg Matuskovic | September 15, 2009 at 07:28 PM