Stretched Clusters and Site Recovery Manager

By Duncan Epping, on March 23rd, 2012%

My colleague Ken Werneburg, also known as “@vmKen“, just published a new white paper. (Follow him if you aren’t yet!) This white paper talks about both SRM and Stretched Cluster solutions and explains the advantages and disadvantages of either. It provides a great overview in my opinion on when a stretched cluster should be implemented or when SRM makes more [...]

“Stretched Clusters and Site Recovery Manager” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Available now: vSphere 5 Clustering Deepdive. (paper | e-book)

. . . → Read More: Stretched Clusters and Site Recovery Manager

Comments are closed   5.0, BC-DR, ha, metro, Miscellaneous, site recovery manager, srm, stretched, VMware, vSphere

Permanent Device Loss (PDL) enhancements in vSphere 5.0 Update 1 for Stretched Clusters

By Duncan Epping, on March 16th, 2012%

In the just released vSphere 5.0 Update 1 some welcome enhancements were added around vSphere HA and how a Permanent Device Loss (PDL) condition is handled. The PDL condition is a condition that is communicated by the array to ESXi via a SCSI sense code and indicates that a device (LUN) is unavailable and more than likely permanently unavailable. This [...]

“Permanent Device Loss (PDL) enhancements in vSphere 5.0 Update 1 for Stretched Clusters” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Available now: vSphere 5 Clustering Deepdive. (paper | e-book)

. . . → Read More: Permanent Device Loss (PDL) enhancements in vSphere 5.0 Update 1 for Stretched Clusters

Comments are closed   5.0, BC-DR, ha, metro, Miscellaneous, Server, stretched, u1, update 1, vSphere

NetApp MetroCluster supported for 5.0?

By Duncan Epping, on March 12th, 2012%

When doing some research for a paper I am working on I noticed something. On the 29th of February the KB Article that explains some of the failure scenarios for a NetApp MetroCluster solution was updated and support for “ESXi 5.0″ was added. I haven’t seen an update to the vMSC HCL yet, but I would guess that this would [...]

“NetApp MetroCluster supported for 5.0?” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Available now: vSphere 5 Clustering Deepdive. (paper | e-book)

. . . → Read More: NetApp MetroCluster supported for 5.0?

Comments are closed   metro, netapp, Server, vSphere