Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0: Technology Hands-on (Vmware Press)

Excellent manual, definitely one to keep on your shelf. However, if you have limited or no experience with SRM or Storage (specifically replication-synchronous/asynchronous, etc) then I would NOT recommend starting with this book. Read up on the VMware pubs site and also watch the SRM/Storage overviews on youtube which will give you a much better overview before delving into the nitty gritty details laid out in this book. If you do have some exposure you should be fine to catch on to most of the items in this book with a little help from google. All others will find this book is an excellent refresher/how-to experience for SRM.

This book is a treasure trove of experience from Mike Laverick covering VMware's SRM 5. The writing style is very human and conversational, with plenty of little anecdotes and personal experiences to be found, which greatly facilitates the desire to absorb this book cover to cover. The material covers many different vendor products that are used with SRM, along with detailed visuals (screenshots and the like) to assist the reader in understanding how they work. Even if you're not currently purchasing or using SRM, I would recommend this book as a good way to remove the FUD around disaster recovery in a VMware environment and get a better perspective on your options to protect your VMs.

The book is a good read despite being dated. It works to establish a good baseline of knowledge surrounding SRM. Good source of powercli scripts.

Great condition. Keep up the good work.

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This is a terrific book from VMware Press. Mike Laverick has provided a well written and organized book. The chapters covering Dell, EMC, HP, and NetApp Storage Arrays are terrific. Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 should be on the bookshelf of VMware and Storage admins.To some the organization and presentation of this book may seem unconventional. Chapter 1 describes Site Recovery Manager, DR technologies, and addresses misconceptions of VMware technologies often thought of as DR technologies. Chapters 2 - 6 individually explain how to configure Dell, EMC Celerra, EMC CLARiiON, HP StorageWorks, and NetApp storage for VMware. Chapters 7 - 16 then cover the configuration and operation of VMware SRM. Chapters 1 plus one of 2 -6 make this book worthwhile to anyone installing a VMware solution with a SAN.Mike walks the reader through the entire installation and configuration process with plenty of screenshots and real world examples. It is easy to follow along as he builds out a SRM solution. As the solution is built out, it covers advanced topics like customizations, scripting, and complex configurations.Billy Carter

This book is a great resource for those of us with little or no previous exposure to SRM. The combination of details and overview make it helpful for not only getting familiar with the concepts but also seeing how it would fit into an existing (or new) environment. I especially liked the storage specific sections tailored to several of the different options available. This makes for something of a customized book where you can read or ignore the sections that apply to your own specific scenario(s) while still having the general information available. Having some scripting suggestions, common errors, AND Monty Python references makes for a great book, definitely recommended.

VMware press has made the book easy to read, added screenshots, and give real-world scenarios. The book is broken into 16 chapters. A couple of things that I really like are: how the author provided a link to "Links and Other Useful Items from the SRM Book" - it breaks down all of the hyperlinks that are in book into one place. The other part that I really like is how the author used locations in the US to help grasp the scenarios he was referencing.This is a book that I will use and reference as I go about creating my DR for VMware servers. Thanks for making a great book!

A very good book which contains some excellent advice on how to configure this product. My only gripe is that best practice recommendations are not highlighted or bulleted.It also details how to configure storage using different storage platforms such as Dell Netapp and EMCIf you are going to deploy SRM 5 then get this book

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