Had a small issue with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 today when performing a real failover of a single VM with a customer of mine. Nothing big, just using one VM one protection group, showing them that a failover would work. After recovery went fine, I started the reprotection and ran into a licensing […]
Disaster Recovery
Upgrading VMware vCenter Heartbeat 6.3 update 1 to 6.4
When preparing your Virtual Infrastructure environment for vSphere 5 and vCenter 5 you also need to think of all the vCenter applications that are dependent on vCenter. One of them is vCenter Heartbeat. To be able to run vCenter Heartbeat on vCenter 5 you will need to upgrade vCenter Heartbeat to version 6.4. Normally upgrading […]
Zerto Replication and Disaster Recovery the easy way
Zerto http://www.Zerto.com/ (Zero RTO) is a startup company that I first heard about when they were presenting at the Techfield Day in Boston. All information was under embargo, which didn’t allow us delegates to publish about Zerto until June 22nd and so I had to wait with this post until now. The presentation done by […]
Cheap disaster recovery
At the Dutch VMUG, together with my colleague Jos Vanaubel, I presented about how to do cheap disaster recovery using only PowerShell. At the London VMUG I held the same presentation again and promised to upload the scripts to my blog. Well, here it is in PDF format:
Snapshot fails with incorrect CID info in the VDMK file
Just before I was heading home, my colleague asked me to assist with a VM he couldn’t power on anymore. Seemed a customer had tried to commit a snapshot and the job timed out. The customer then tried some other things and suddenly the VM was down. While trying to power on, there was an […]