Dell EqualLogic Auto-Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager

Oooo, more new stuff for EqualLogic customers!  Now if only GCC were using VI3...

Dell EqualLogic Auto-Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager

Simple, Affordable, Automated Disaster Recovery

New Solutions for Automated Site Recovery from Dell and VMware: The virtual infrastructure enabled by Dell EqualLogic and VMware VI3 technologies now automate disaster recovery planning and execution by natively integrating the PS Series Auto-Replication feature directly into VMware’s Site Recovery Manager software.
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a new product that is tightly integrated with Dell EqualLogic PS Series to offer centralized disaster recovery management, automation, and testing for the entire virtualized datacenter. Using the PS Series’ native Auto-Replication feature integrated directly into Site Recovery Manager using specialized storage adapter software storage adapter software.  MORE

Comments

[Tim Larson]

This is likely the direction we'll be going at MTW. We have the Equallogic SAN (and we purchased a second one off ebay), and our entire environment is on VI3.

Right now I'm pricing out some colocation facilities. I'm looking at about $1,000 a month for 10U of rack space, 10A of power, and a 5MB internet connection.

I just upgraded the firmware on our SANs, so I hope to start testing the replication tomorrow or Friday. And it looks like Site Recovery Manager was just released, so I can start testing it, too!

Fun stuff. Check out SRM - it is quite nice in what it can do.

Tim Larson