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What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1?
Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 5.1. At the general session at VMworld 2012 VMware also announced that the vRAM licensing is gone. vSphere 5.1 will be licensed per […]
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Port requirements for Site Recovery Manager 5 and vCenter Server 5
A few days ago Troy Hampel (@MrTroyH) asked me on Twitter if I had some troubleshooting blogs about resource mapping permission in Site Recovery Manager 5, unfortunately I didn’t, simply […]
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How To: Upgrade VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 to version 5.0.1
Here is a quick “how to” on upgrading the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager from version 5.0 to version 5.0.1. It is recommended that you perform an in-place upgrade rather […]
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How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 10 (Final): Migration and Failover
So far we covered almost any aspect of the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. We have prepared and set up the infrastructure, paired the sites, configured the VR replication, set […]
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How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 9: Recovery Plans
The protection group is now configured and the VMs are replicating to the Protected Site. The next step in the SRM deployment is to configure a recovery plan. “A recovery […]
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How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 8: Protection Groups
After configuring the replication of the virtual machines in SRM we can now create Protection Group(s). So what exactly is a protection group? Well, it’s quite self-explanatory 🙂 “A protection […]
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How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 7: VM Replication
Before we can protect a single virtual machine or a group of virtual machines, the virtual machine files need to be replicated from the Protected Site to the Recovery Site. […]
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How To: VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 – Part 6: Inventory mappings
Now that the VR infrastructure is up and running we can start to configure the inventory mappings. The Inventory Mappings provide a convenient way to specify how the resources at […]