Re-Posted: Your Input? The Future of SRM?
I’m re-posting this blogpost – because there was a problem with the comments feature in WP which I think I have resolved. Sorry, about that. Anyway, I would be really interested in peoples thoughts.
Yesterday I had the pleasure meeting Jacob Jensen of VMware. He’s VMware new Product Group Manager for the SRM product – prior to this he was heavily involved in the network piece of vSphere4, and prior to that worked for Cisco. Jacob has been over in EMEA for some weeks, sounding out customers and partners about what they would like see VMware Site Recovery Manager to do in the future. It was a really insightful and useful two hours spent in London (and I don’t often say that about London, except at the London VMUG!), and the added bonus was I got spend sometime with my partner (Carmel) who is working down there on a contact currently. Carmel wasn’t bored – having been the proof-reader for my end of the Vi3Book, vSphere4 and two SRM books – she knows just about as much as I do. In fact she sometimes finds herself not just correcting my typos, but the odd technical error now and then. Plus she set me and Jacob straight her perspective on licensing of the SRM product and DR.
Anyway, we had a very detailed chat about the current position of SRM and future directions – as well as general chat about the guiding philosophies at VMware. I promised Jacob I would get back to him with an extended email about things I want to see SRM do in the future. I’ve got quite a few ideas of my own. But I do that I thought it might be interesting to reach out to the community of bloggers, partners and customers who come to RTFM each day – and ask if for you input. I’m really interested in hearing from you if you are VMware Customer using SRM, but even more so if you are VMware Customer who’s not. Aside from product improvements and increasing the scope of SRM – I’m really interested in what the barriers are to customers adopting the product, and identifying imaginative and creative ways of getting round those barriers if they exist.
I dare say I won’t come up with anything original or different that Jacob hasn’t heard already. But perhaps with it coming from a different direction – there might be a different perspective. Anyway, if you interested in contributing. Leave an extended comment on this blogpost – and make your voice heard here!
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July 8th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Hi Mike,
) and in the remote sites basically they are individual ESX hosts with Direct attached storage. My question would be in terms of VMware and their SRA adapters do they envisage supporting such a configuration going forward? Our big piece of the jigsaw eg Data center -> data center DR capability is covered by the piece but part 2 – eg remote site to data center DR capability does not appear to be a possibility in the current configuration.
Firstly, great site, just read your piece regards SRM. At present part of a group administering a medium-large scale ESX implementation – 200-odd hosts(mix vsphere/3.5 – half and half) and about 2200 VM’s. At present we are evaluating SRM but with time mgmt issues etc difficult to spend time properly looking into it. In a nutshell we have 2 data centres – encompassing about 120 of the hosts and about of the VM’s, the rest of the ESX hosts are located in remote sites we have dotted about the world.
From a storage perspective in the DC’s we are running netapp and NFS (still holding up perf-wise
Sorry for the long-winded description, hope i adequately explained things!
Many thx
John M