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October 14th, 2015 05:00
VMware concept with MirrorView
Hello community,
I just wanted to know if I hvae two EMC boxes with MirrorView enabled, do I also need a VMware SRM Instalaltion for failover?
Or will everything be handeled by MirrorView staff?
Thanks for some informations.
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rewalmilo
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October 15th, 2015 01:00
Mirrorview ist doing a blocklevel replication. If you mirror a lun with a vmware datastore on it then you have the komplete vmfs filessystem on the remote side but in case of a failover you have to mount the datastore and import all virtual machines manualy etc. VMware SRM (Site recovery manager ) would take care of all this on the vmware side. Mirrorview is "only" providing a block level mirror of the source lun VMware SRM is running on top of it taking care of all VMware operations needed. If you are familiar with vSphere PowerCli you cold also automate this with scripts but you would have to write, test and mantain them on your own.
https://support.emc.com/docu33753_Using-VNX-Storage-with-VMWare-vSphere.pdf?language=en_US
See chapter 4. Automating site failover with SRM and VNX
https://support.emc.com/docu43818_MirrorView-Enabler-for-EMC-VNX-SRA-Release-Notes.pdf?language=en_US
kelleg
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October 14th, 2015 14:00
Please see the following:
https://support.emc.com/docu32906_MirrorView_Knowledgebook:_Releases_30_%C2%96_33_-_A_Detailed_Review.pdf?language=en_US&language=en_US
Rainer_EMC
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October 16th, 2015 02:00
Most likely yes – MirrorView just replicates the data
Rainer
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October 21st, 2015 10:00
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