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Jon Bock has launched a new VMware blog, called Uptime, that will focus on data protection, availability, and disaster recovery with VMware environments. Site Recovery Manager is of course one of the featured stars in that space, so be keep your eye on what gets posted there. You can find the blog here.
In the first posting, Lee Dilworth covered some of the common questions VMware gets from users about Site Recovery Manager along with some tips on how to get Site Recovery Manager working in your environment. They've also posted a video (with Richard Garthagen) that gives an overview of Site Recovery Manager. They have more posts in the works covering various aspects of Site Recovery Manager, so stay tuned!

A month ago Hany Michael launched his weblog called Hypervizor.com. Today he posted an impressive article, a video tutorial about installing VMware SRM.

This is the first video tutorial in a series to come for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), one of the most interesting and efficient products from VMware. It’s my very first video in my blog also so please leave your comments and let me know your opinion. Don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed to be notified in time for future videos.

Update : The second video tutorial is online, SAN Setup using the Lefthand VSA.

Update : This is the third video in the SRM series, here we configure the SAN replication between the two datacenters, and then configure the ESX hosts to connect to the new  iSCSI SAN.

I signed up for the VMworld Europe 2009 Partner Day. Europe's largest virtualization partner community event is due to take place on Monday, 23 January at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes.

Partner Day showcases the latest partner programmes, sales and training programs and marketing initiatives. Partner Day is the place for all partners (including VIP, SIs, OEMs etc) to:

• Hear from the senior VMware management team about the vision for our partner community
• Get the inside scoop on new partner programmes and training roadmap
• Learn about new sales and marketing tools
• Network with your peers and the VMware team 

I just received Season’s greetings from VMware, their online Christmas card looks like some kind of a Sphere.

"Please enjoy this festive period with your friends and family, Have a great xmas and new year."