Where on earth are the IBM VMware SRAs?I always laugh when people say to me: I wouldn't know what to blog about! When you work in pre-sales support, you constantly get asked questions and each one of them could be the subject of a new blog post. Right now the most common question I am getting is: I am implementing VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). One of the components I need are vendor specific Site Recovery Agents (SRA). I have searched IBM's website but cannot find them. Where are they? So the short answer is: you get them from the VMware SRM download site.
So where are the SRAs? On each of the pages below use the Show Details button to see what version SRAs are being shipped with that SRM (although sometimes the pages take a few days between an SRA being added and the page being updated): VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.1.2 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0 There are a few more questions I routinely get asked: Does IBM actually have an SRA download site? The answer is yes, but it is an FTP site only for SRAs written by IBM. It is principally a repository for older SRAs and beta SRAs but you can also find the current SRAs on it. You can find the site here. Note however that it is NOT the official source. For that you need to use the VMware site. What about the SRA for LSI/Engenio based products like the DS4800? These used to also be found on the LSI site, but since LSI sold Engenio to NetApp, it is no longer available from the LSI or NetApp websites. You need to download the current version from the VMware sites listed above. There is a version for SRM 5 on the VMware download site. What about nSeries SRAs? If you need an nSeries SRA, again you should go to the VMware download pages. There are separate SRAs listed and available for IBM nSeries (as opposed to an SRA for NetApp branded filers). What about an SRA for XIV with SRM version 5? The answer: The SRA for XIV with SRM 5 (and 5.0.1) is now available from VMware. If you have access to download SRM, you will be able to download SRA version 2.1.0. It is the same SRA for both XIV Generation2 and Gen3. What about an SRA for Storwize V7000 and SVC version 6.3 code? The answer: It is coming. We are working to make it available as soon as possible. I will update this post as soon as I have a date for you (we are talking weeks, not months). *** Update March 23, 2012 - Added details on SRM 5.0.1 ***
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