PowerPath Migration Enabler (PPME)

As so many of our customers move from one of our platforms to another, I thought it would be useful to write about the inherent migration capability of our multipathing software PowerPath. It is known as PowerPath Migration Enabler. I plan on doing this over a few posts to cover some of the different use...

Oracle RAC vVol test failover without SRM (import snapshot)

Our vVol 2.0/VASA 3.0 implementation which includes SRDF replication, is best implemented with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). We do not recommend using PowerCLI as there are manual processes involved and there are known issues. There's really little comparison between the two. SRM handles all the orchestration for you and is the superior solution for...

SRDF/Metro and VMware Metro Storage Cluster

It's been a while since my last post - I've been busy with Virtual Volume (VVol) testing and writing a new SRDF/Metro paper which coincidentally (or perhaps obviously) is the subject of this post.  The paper covers using SRDF/Metro with VMware Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) and was just posted. You can find it here: WP...