BC4260

Site Recovery Manager: Lessons Learned in the First 90 Days

In this session, attendees will learn how Site Recovery Manager (SRM) can provide enhanced disaster recovery operations through automation during setup, testing and failover. The session will review lessons that have been learned in the field during the first 90 days since the release of SRM, including: tips for configuring storage replication with SRM, VM alignment to replicated datastores, and using test VLANs at the recovery site. The session will also focus on how SRM can be leveraged for the failback of services after a SRM failover operation due to a disaster event.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Lee Dilworth( VMware,Inc. ), David Burgess( VMware, Inc. )

Lee Dilworth is a Specialist System Engineer responsible for platform and architecture covering Northern Europe Region. Lee's main focus is to work VMware Systems Engineers sharing his extensive VMware implementation experience in the form of in-depth architecture and platform workshops, presentations, proof of concepts, trade shows and executive briefings. Lee's is also responsible for the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery pre-sales technical function in Northern Europe. Lee also co-authored VMware's first VMbook which focuses on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery which can be sourced at http://wcm.vmware.com/technology/high-availability/best-practices.html.
Prior to joining VMware, Lee was a senior consultant for Siebel Systems where he worked on Siebel
implementations for their UNIX customer base. Prior to Siebel Lee worked for four years as an AIX /DB2 specialist for IBM UK. During this time, Lee also co-authored an IBM Redbook on DB2 Performance Tuning.

David Burgess is a Lead System Engineer for VMware with 20 years of experience varying from Unix kernel and compiler development, product marketing and pre-sales roles. David currently works with VMware's Financial Services customers in the UK where one of his areas of focus is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Since the release of Site Recovery Manager David has been actively involved with his customers demonstrating how Site Recovery Manager can further enhance their existing and new Disaster Recovery operations. David also co-authored VMware's first VMbook which focuses on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery which can be sourced at http://wcm.vmware.com/technology/high-availability/best-practices.html.
Prior to VMware David worked for HP, Novadigm, Volantis, IBM and Sequent.