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January 18th, 2011 10:00

Newly updated VMware/Symmetrix TechBooks!

The following two Techbook have been updated and published to Powerlink and they are now available as free PDFs for download or as hard copies available for purchase from vervante.com.

Using EMC SRDF Adapter for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Powerlink:

http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Basics/White_Paper/h7061-srdf-adapter-vcenter-srm.pdf

Vervante:

http://store.vervante.com/c/v/V4081409244.html?base_cat=EMC%3a%20EMC%20TechBooks&pard=emc

Important updates in the book include:

  • Installation & Configuration of the latest SRDF Storage Replication Adapter (version 2.2)
  • How to use the new SRA 2.2 features:
    • Test failover using TimeFinder/Snap off of a SRDF/A R2 (newly supported in 5875).
    • Test failover without using TimeFinder technologies and instead directly running the test failover off of the SRDF R2.
    • How to use the new Virtual Storage Integrator 4.0 SRA Utilities:
      • Automated Failback
      • Consistency Group creation
      • New appendix discussing Solutions Enabler licensing. This section includes a discussion of the traditional licensing as well as the new licensing paradigm (eLicensing) introduced in 5875 and Solutions Enabler 7.2.

Storage Pool Management Feature in EMC Virtual Storage Integrator

Powerlink:

http://powerlink.emc.com/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Basics/White_Paper/h7095-vsi-storage-pool-mngt-tb.pdf

Vervante:

http://store.vervante.com/c/v/V4081409207.html?base_cat=EMC%3a%20EMC%20TechBooks&pard=emc

This TechBook describes how VMware Infrastructure products work with EMC Symmetrix storage systems and software technologies. This document focuses on the Storage Pool Management feature of EMC Virtual Storage Integrator.

Important updates in the book include:

  • New VSI Framework
    • SPM installed as an individual feature with no dependency on other features
  • SMC 7.2 support
  • Metavolume support
    • Limitation on device size of TDEV removed
    • Concatenated devices
  • Batch RDM creation
    • RDMs creation can be bundled into multiple disks
    • Create multiple disks from different storage pools at once
  • Enhanced logging

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Regards,

Cody

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Cody Hosterman

SVPG Partner Engineering – VMware & Cisco Technologies

Symmetrix & Virtualization Product Group

EMC Corporation


Twitter @codyhosterman

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