Storage Software

If you don't know, the acronyms in the title meandisaster recovery with VMware ESX Site Recovery Manager and Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage.

My new homey, Andrew Gilman, is giving an online demo next Wednesday (May 28) that shows you how it all works.  Click here to register for it.

Roll it, Andrew
 

 Check out Darren Miller's online demo tomorrow. (Friday May 23rd)

1:00 PM Eastern .  He looks good, doesn't he?

EMC World always stirs the storage pot, like yesterday's rumor that Cisco might acquire EMC or today's discussions where, as Storagemojo put it, Maui was "conspicuous by its absence."  I liked Beth Pariseau's article for the happy graphic.

Got a great question last week from Tom Sightler on my blog posting about SRM:

Does SRM support linux as a guest OS?

Its interesting that there wasn't anything explicitly mentioned about linux on anything Tom or I could find.  So, I checked with our product team - and the answer is yes - the functions of SRM are independent of the guest OS.  It's what you would expect, but expectations aren't that useful in the real world. The video below was first posted on my Storage@Work site.

VMware's SRM (Site Recovery Manager), which was announced this week, can accommodate a number of critical elements that are external to VMware system stuff that should be part of a system recovery at a remote site. This is another video made at our BOF last September at VMworld in San Francisco.

This one features Kiran Ranabhor, Technical Product Manager for DR, VMware.