Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to develop various commands to be run within Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery plans, during this time I’ve uncovered some interesting results and gotcha’s. Command generated Errors If you look around there at various blog posts and community pages which provide an …

Question. According to this KB http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026326 , Windows VMs in vCloud Director need to be configured with DHCP to be able to join a Microsoft Active Directory domain. I have a VM with a static IP address. How do I get around this requirement? Answer. The issue around DHCP is Microsoft-related and not …

I was recently involved in an engagement to implement Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5 with a Dell Compellent storage solution. During the engagement we had various issues around how to implement the Dell components. Dell have produced a best practice document but some elements of the document are a little light on the …

These are notes on how to setup Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with HDS Storage using a command control device. If using a VM for the SRM server ensure the following are configured before attempting to install the SRM components: RDM presented to the SRM VM, attached, initialized, but not formatted or assigned a drive …