How-to test a Site Recovery Manager on a laptop or desktop computer

I saw a guide at the WMware’s website that you can test a SRM (Site Recovery Manager) on a Laptop computer (with Intel VT processor capable). What? Yes. All you need to have is a laptop computer with 3Gb of RAM and 12Gb of free space on your disk drive. This guide was made for VMware partners and sales to be able to show a future clients how this stuff works. I think that I’ll do some testing of this next week and then I’ll post an article about it.

In one of my previous posts here and here I pointed the PDF documentation from Xtravirt about How-to install a ESX Server inside a VMware Workstation. So this PDF file from Xtravirt is also mentioned in the guide published at VMware’s website.

The guide is PDF file about 20 pages long. All this will be running inside of VMware Workstation. With 2 ESX servers as a WMs, 2 VMs hosting Virtual Center Server and SRM Server, 2 Lefthand Virtual Storage Appliances and 1 nested VM running in one ESX Server Virtual machine.

You will need this:

• VMware Workstation 6.5 – get evaluation version here
• VMware ESX 3.0.2 U1 or 3.5 U1 – get evaluation version here
• VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 U1 – get evaluation version here
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP 2 – get VMware appliance here
• VMware Site Recovery Manager v1.0 - get evaluation version here
• VMware Site Recovery Manager Plug-In (get via VI client : Manage > Plugins)
• LeftHand Network VSA for VMware ESX – evaluation here
• LeftHand Network Centralized Management Console (CMC) – evaluation here

Source: VMware

Technorati: VMware SRM VMware ESXVMware Workstation VMware Infrastructure

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