So, I wanted to talk a little about the new version of Site Recovery Manager that is coming soon. I’ve got nothing against SRM, but prior versions were a little poor in the administration and no automated fail back, thankfully these have been addressed in the new version.
So, onto some highlights:
- Integration with multiple vendors spread across 28 arrays
- Failure detection, then manage the entire failover process
- Proper Multi Site DR capabilities, not just the 1:1 relationship that is in place at the moment. This will allow for migration of these Virtual Machines across multiple datacentres across Continents if needs be
- Application mobility – Assign RPO and RTO service levels to applications to define DR Service levels
- A new concept of utilizing SRM as a disaster avoidance tool, migrate those VM workloads from the data centre that is in harm’s way to one that can continue processing
- SRM is not just to be used as a DR tool, but also a data centre migration tool
- Automated Failback!!! Woot
- Host based replication – no need to purchase those expensive SAN’s or iSCSI now, a bonus for the SMB’s
- Scheduled migrations
- A nice new designed GUI
For those familiar with SRM 4, SRM 5 is what it should have been in the first place, I think I can justify the price of this version now! 🙂