Site Recovery Manager

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.2 – No more Windows

May 10, 2019 VMware

VMware has just announced the release of Site Recovery Manager 8.2. There are a number of new items in SRM 8.2, such as enhancements to the HTML5 user interface, support for vSphere 6.7 Update 2, but most notably is Site Recovery Manager 8.2 virtual appliance!

No more Microsoft Windows license needed! The SRM 8.2 virtual appliance runs on the Photon OS distro, which is similar to what the vCenter virtual appliance has been running on for years now.

vSphere 5.5 Update 1 has been released, includes VSAN.

March 12, 2014 VMware

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VMware has officially released vSphere 5.5 U1 which includes a number of improvements, fixes, and most excitedly the production ready version of VSAN!

What’s new

vCloud Hybrid Service vSphere Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client.
vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2.
A number of resolved issues

How to use Site Recovery Manager DR IP Customizer

February 24, 2014March 12, 2014 VMware

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As one of the tasks given to me include protecting critical virtual machines via Site Recovery Manager (SRM) I ran into an environment that needed to be protected and have static IP’s assigned to them. The environment consists of about 15 VM’s, all of the VM’s each have 5 NIC’s with two of the VM’s having 9 NIC’s – that’s a lot of NIC’s to manually configure on both the Protected and Recovery side in SRM.

Looking through the SRM Documentation I was able to see that VMware has graced us with a wonderful tool to greatly speed up this process, dr-ip-customizer.exe!

What’s new

How to use VMware DR-IP-Customizer