Recently there are some request from my client who suggested to have their production and DR site to be automated protected and fail over in the event of disaster. VMware SRM seems to be right choice for most of the time, but these clients are decided to bring it to another level of fail over procedure during the DR happen. I am doing some research today and found this interesting topic from Netapp which the Metro cluster suppose to synchronize from production to DR through dark fiber to prevent controller failure, DR or disk corruption.
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I’m getting an “error message: 28038″ just before the VMware VCenter Server installation end as screen shot below:
Workaround:
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Netapp had official release the virtual storage console for VMware ESX host. You can view more information from here.
If you are netapp existing customers, you can download the software from here
Below is the summary I link from Netapp official blog site
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SRM version 4 had officially released and ready to download from VMware Official Website. Before this, users with SRM will not able to upgrade to vSphere 4 due to the SRM compatible. Now you will be excited to upgrade your existing ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4 with SRM 4. You can read more about SRM 4 from here. You can download the latest copy of SRM 4 from here.
Most of us may had previously experienced a VM which hung in the ESX hosts. Usually we will use the command vmware-cmd utilities to kill or stop the virtual machine. Sometimes we even need to use the vm-support command to force the VM to be stop hardly if vmware-cmd was not worked. Today I found some interesting issue with 1 of the virtual machine. I had executed the instruction to power off from vCenter 4. This virtual machine is running on vsphere 4. After 2 minutes, the virtual machine still showed power on from the vCenter, and I executed again the 2nd command to power off, the system prompted that another process was in progress, and access was denied.
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