Does RHEV provide functionality similar to VMware's SRM?
I was fortunate enough to have a colleague (from LinkedIn) suggest this forum to present the question.
A customer was participating in a high-level overview presentation of Red Hat covering a number of topics. We quickly reviewed RHEV (off-script) and the customer had some pertinent questions regarding RHEV. The one I am most interested in hearing others perspective regarding is whether RHEV provides an automated facility to failover hosts between "sites".
Of course that type of functionality can be architected/scripted/implemented into a solution, but I believe the customer (and myself) are wondering if RHEV has that type of functionality, or if anyone has heard whether they are considering it.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi James,
A solution exists, but I'm afraid it hadn't been published yet. If you have a TAM for your account, you could try and request the RHEV DR doc though the TAM, otherwise, keep an eye on the Reference Architecture page at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/refarch/ for when it is published.
Cheers,
Dan
my bad, didn't find it at first: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/refarch/rhev-30-disaster-recovery-site-site-fail-over
Here is the current URL:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/216763
It's written for RHEV 3.0 so a few things may need updating.
Implementing something like this yourself is not for the faint of heart. I can understand why some organizations would prefer something packaged like SRM, imperfect as it is.
Guru
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As an aside, you may want to take a look at these chaps http://www.quru.com/
They claim to have developed a SRM type solution for RHEV. I'm due to meet with them to discuss. They have a demo too, apparently.
I shall let you know how it goes......
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