When you build your virtual infrastructure with only ESXi hosts that you also lock down for security reasons, you might be in for a little surprise when you want to get your VI up and running again after major maintenance or a failure. First thing to do after the virtual infrastructure has been down, is […]
Disaster Recovery
StorMagic SvSAN with High Availability mirroring
Recently I had the opportunity to review StorMagic’s SvSAN software. Their current release available from their website is only compatible with VMware ESX 3.5, since my home lab is already running VMware vSphere I received the latest beta 4.1.913 which does work with vSphere. In this review I will not write on absolute performance since […]
LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM) (Drill Instructor Dan Anderson and Tim Meyers) This Lab was great. When entering class and finding your seat, there was this huge American dude standing in front of class. When taking us through the first powerpoint slides, he was constantly walking from left to right and back again, remembering us […]