Mr. Brambley at VM/ETC has a great post on SRM, with links to all sorts of really, really useful information.

This post is a collection of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) links that have been building up as various notes, to dos, and draft posts collecting dust for VM /ETC. I’m including links to popular blog posts describing how to set up “in a box” demo lab environments for SRM,  links to a couple free chapters from a SRM book, and links to multiple VMworld 2008 SRM presentations for those readers that did not get attend either VMworld Europe or VMworld in Las Vegas this year. Finally, at the end of this post I am also including the VMworld 2008 Installing Configuring and Troubleshooting SRM lab materials.

 

Be sure to follow all links to read the original content, but I am briefly quoting from each source to provide some descriptions.

 

New SRM posts and links seem to be popping up daily. If you have a great SRM link please leave it in the comments for all to find.

Pancil sent me this link as well:

This is the forth and last tutorial in the SRM series. We will install the SRA, configure it, and then complete the SRM setup to test our first Recovery Plan, actually this was originally two videos, I tried to merge them to avoid too many episodes in this series.

Please let me know you feedback via comments or email to know if you would be interested in more advanced SRM tutorials in future.

VMware’s new names certainly make for much longer titles, don’t they?  That said, I found out from Mr. Scott Lowe, that SRM Update 1 is now available.

Some of the new goodies include:

• SRM has separated the permission to test a recovery plan and to actually run a recovery plan. This allows more junior admins to test the plan, but reserve actually running the plan for a more senior admin, for example.
• RDM support, which enables failover for MSCS clusters
• Batch IP property customization

Release notes here.

Thomas at Tandem wrote a wonderful PDF on setting up Site Recovery Manager using the Netapp Simulator.

PDF Can be downloaded here