Steps to setup VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 with EMC Celerra NAS Replications
Created on: Oct 5, 2009 5:44 AM by Cormac Hogan - Last Modified: Oct 5, 2009 7:21 AM by Cormac Hogan
Introduction
The attached document contains the steps involved in setting up theEMC Celerra storage arrays for use with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
Outline
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is a disater recovery product which uses array replication technologies to failover from one site to another.
This particular document looks at one particular vendor (EMC) and one particular array model (Celerra).
This document also focuses on configuring a new feature introduced in SRM 4.0, namely NAS (NFS) replictions.
The document will take you through the replication and snapshot setup steps using only the command line interface (CLI).
Authors:
Cormac Hogan
Global Support Services (GSS)
VMware
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Disclaimer:
You use this proven practice at your discretion. VMware and the author do not guarantee any results from the use of this proven practice. This proven practice is provided on an as-is basis and is for demonstration purposes only.
Cormac Hogan says:
in response to: ebussink
Hi Erik,
i think the thought here initially was to try to make the GUI/web interface work faster. But as you can see, i moved away from this and did everything via the CLI in the end. So i guess you don't need to worry about this - a single vCPU ot 2 x vCPUs will work.
A note on the GUI responsiveness - according to Chad Sakac's blog on the Celerra VSA, it now performs much much better if it is deployed on an Intel VT or AMD-V server - you can read more about that here - http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/05/using-vsphere-and-hw-offload -for-improved-celerra-vsa-performance.html
Hope this helps
Cormac
Hello Cormac. On page 4 you say we should use 2 vCPUs for the Celerra Simulator. Yet I downloaded the latest Celerra Simulator with Two Datamovers (Release 5.6.45), yet I only see one CPU inside the simulator. The 2.6.22-blackbird kernel only uses 1 vCPU. Is the 2nd vCPU really used ?