Ever want to setup DR but don’t have a SAN? Well, there’s several ways you can do that. The newest one is to use the EMC Celera Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). Chad Sakac over at Virtual Geek just published the very thorough (and long) guide on how to set this up. Don’t want to use EMC for some reason? NetApp and LeftHand (now HP) have guides of their own. For NetApp go here. For LeftHand go here.
It really is amazing to see the tight integration between VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and these new virtual storage arrays. It’s the power of virtualization coming together.
Let me know if you find solutions like this useful. It’s always a team effort to get something like this out the door for the joint customers. It’s good to get feedback on whether it’s useful or not.
