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Introducing IBM XIV SRA 2.1.0 for VMware SRM 5.0

ZivKalmanovich Tags: srm xiv sra vmware ‎ 4,184 Views

We are excited to announce release of IBM XIV SRA 2.1.0 that is compatible with VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0.

Release Highlights:

Support for VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0.1 (and 5.0.0)
Support for XIV GEN2 (microcode 10.2.X) and for XIV GEN3 (microcode 11.X).

About SRM 5.0:

Site Recovery Manager 5.0 includes three major additions to the workflow capabilities:

Planned migration
Reprotection
Failback

About IBM XIV SRA 2.1.0 with VMware SRM 5.0:

The IBM XIV SRA extends SRM capabilities and allows it to seamlessly employ XIV replication and mirroring as part of the SRM comprehensive Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) solution.
Using the IBM XIV SRA, VMware administrators can automate the failover of an XIV system at the primary SRM site to an XIV system at a recovery (secondary) SRM site. Immediately upon a failover, the ESX/ESXi servers at the secondary SRM site start using the replicated datastores on the mirrored volumes of the secondary XIV system.

That's great ! But where can I get It ?

It's already available at the VMware download page of SRM 5.0.1 (You can click on the "Show Details" link inside the "Components" section to reveal the list of SRA components with IBM XIV SRA included)

We would love to hear from you, please leave you questions and comments below.

IBM XIV Host Software team

The new IBM XIV Adapter for VMware vCenter SRM 4.1.x was released!

Lihi Tikolsky Tags: srm adapter xiv sra ‎ 2,663 Views

Hi everyone, we have some great news for VMware SRM 4.1.x users.

The new IBM XIV Adapter for VMware vCenter SRM 4.1.x was released!

The IBM XIV Adapter version 4.1.0 adds support for XIV's GEN3 systems, and also fixes a couple of bugs.

So if you are using SRM 4.1 - you can now use it with both XIV GEN2 (microcode version 10.2.x) and XIV GEN3 (microcode version 11.x)!

You can download the IBM XIV adapter software package from the SRM 4.1.2 download page (after clicking the View Downloads button, the IBM XIV adapter is listed on the page).

Feel free to ask us any question.

Lihi Tikolsky from the IBM XIV Host Software team.

IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter, version 2.3.1

DmitriyIsayev Tags: sra ‎ 1,742 Views

We're pleased to announce the release of the new IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter version - 2.3.1. As you know, IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter is a software add-on that integrates with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) solution. It enables SRM to perform failovers together with IBM DS8000 storage systems.

This release brings the following new features:

Adding support for the Extent Space Efficient (ESE) volumes, offering customers an option of producing an ESE volume when SRA creates flash copies.
Removing the GM Flashcopy on the source site after successful re-protect. This prevents consumption of the pool capacity at the source site and improves overall system efficiency.

In addition, version 2.3.1 introduces support of the all-new member of the DS8000 family, DS8880 (v.8.0), enhancing its industry-leading disaster recovery capabilities.

IBM XIV Storage Replication Adapter, version 2.2.2

DmitriyIsayev Tags: sra ‎ 1,556 Views

We worked hard and it finally happened! Our own IBM XIV Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), version 2.2.2 is fully certified to operate with the following releases of the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager: 5.5, 5.5 Update1, 5.8, 6.0 and 6.1. Although this version is considered a minor release, making the SRA work with all the latest SRM versions was a challenging goal, involving a battery of compatibility tests and closely tied cooperation between the IBM and VMware interoperability teams.

Details are in the VMware Compatibility Guide at https://ibm.biz/BdHuPj. The product documentation is available on IBM Knowledge Center at https://ibm.biz/BdHL7A.

Time to do some XIV mirroring :).

IBM XIV Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), version 2.3.0

DmitriyIsayev Tags: sra srm ‎ 1,226 Views

Good news, everyone! Our IBM XIV Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), version 2.3.0 is fully certified to operate with the following releases of the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager: 5.5, 5.5 Update1, 5.8, 6.0 and 6.1. In addition, this release brings support for synchronous mirroring, using the newest IBM's all-flash storage offerings: ultra-fast IBM FlashSystem A9000 and IBM FlashSystem A9000R.

Details are in the VMware Compatibility Guide at https://ibm.biz/Bdrby2. The product documentation is available on IBM Knowledge Center at https://ibm.biz/BdrpBb.

Fresh from the oven CSS releases to integrate with IBM HyperSwap solution

DmitriyIsayev Tags: sra hak vss ‎ 387 Views

The long and arduous road to HyperSwap is over! We are happy to announce a release of a new software version of our blazingly fast FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R. This is version 12.1, which brings HyperSwap to our storage clients. HyperSwap solution is an ingenious way of providing high availability based on active-active pairing of storage systems per volume or per consistency group. Each volume or consistency group pair uses synchronous replication to keep both systems updated at all times. When certain conditions apply, an automatic and completely transparent failover is performed, so that the applications experience no downtime. As soon as the actual failure is recovered, the pair is automatically resynchronized.

For easier integration with VMware, Linux, AIX and Windows platforms, we've upgraded these Cloud Storage Solution products:

IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family Storage Replication Adapter, version 3.0.0 for combining VMware SRM failover capabilities with state-of-the-art HyperSwap high-availability solution.
IBM Storage Host Attachment Kit, version 2.8.0 for hassle-free attachment of Linux, Windows Server or AIX hosts to FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R storage systems in HyperSwap relations.
IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family Provider for Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service, version 2.9.0 for fully automatic creation of snapshots on HyperSwapped FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R storage systems.

Upgrade now to unleash the full power of the HyperSwap disaster recovery!

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