I am excited to announce the GA of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.8.
What's New?
- Integration into the vSphere Web Client
- Protect up to 5,000 VMs and concurrently recover 2,000 VMs (compared to limits of 1,000 VMs at GA of SRM 5.5) [KB 2081158]
- New integration options using vCenter Orchestrator plug-in for Site Recovery Manager enabling new capabilities including:
- Provision VMs with vCloud Automation Center and automatically DR protect with SRM
- Create SRM protection groups
- Create inventory mappings
- Dramatically simpler IP customization at scale with subnet-level IP customization rules
- Performance improvements to storage failover operations, up to 75% faster in larger environments
- Streamlined deployment using new support for vPostgreSQL that provides optional embedded database option during SRM installation.
- Improved support for Integrated Windows Authentication when using remote Microsoft SQL Server instances as the Site Recovery Manager database
- Compatibility with vSphere Storage I/O Control
Release Notes
- SRM 5.8 Release Notes - https://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-releasenotes-5-8-0.html
- VCO Plugin for SRM 5.8 Release Notes - https://www.vmware.com/support/orchestrator/doc/srm-plugin-58-release-notes.html
Download Landing Page
- SRM 5.8 Landing Page - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_site_recovery_manager/5_8
- VCO Plugin for SRM 5.8 Landing Page - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_site_recovery_manager/5_8#drivers_tools
Product Information
- Product Page - https://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/
- Product Documentation - https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/srm_pubs.html
- Product API Documentation - https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/srm-api/
- Compatibility Matrix - https://www.vmware.com/support/srm/srm-compat-matrix-5-8.html
SRM 5.8 Continues to Support Virtual SAN
SRM 5.8 continues the support of Virtual SAN that was introduced in SRM 5.5U1 using vSphere Replication.
SRM 5.8 Supported Storage Replication Adapters
SRM 5.8 also supports the same Storage Replication Adapters (SRAs) as SRM 5.5 so there is no need to wait for SRAs to be re-certified to take advantage of the SRM 5.8 improvements.
- SRM Certified storage replication adapters - http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=sra
- SRAs are available from the tools and drivers tab of the SRM download page - https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_site_recovery_manager/5_8#drivers_tools