Jainoxi (Joep Piscaer) an active member of the Dutch VMUG also created a home setup of VMware’s Site Recovery Manager. He used the LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN appliance as a storage solution. You can find a complete how to at his new weblog Virtuallifestyle.nl.
As a demo/test I wanted to build a complete SRM setup with both sites being protected. This requires two SRM installations and configurations and two replicated LUN’s. Since I am rather limited in available hardware at the moment, I needed to run every component in a virtual Machine on a single laptop. Luckily, LeftHand Networks has a virtual SAN appliance, which actually is supported by VMware SRM. This way, I can use a supported SAN, and still use ony one laptop. All used software (VMware ESX, vCenter, LeftHand VSA and Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005) are available for free (or as evaluation software).
