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Need Adivce For DRP but compicated

hello everyone i hope you will help me somhow.
i have 2 sites , each site has emc , each site has a esx farm with 3 ESX.
each farm sees the other farm so i can do vmotion between the sites.
there is SRDF between the SAN in the sites.

THE PROBLEM:
i want in case of The esx crashes in one sites or the san in one site that i can as quick as possible bring the vms up.
i didn't try the SRM yet but we are not intrested in investing money in the SRM cause it is a lot.
wich other way i have ? i didn't find any creative idea yet so i would like a little help

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Paul Solovyovsky

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there is a replication between the EMC's in the sites. but if the san goes down i need to make a split so that the replicas at the backup site will be the main disk. the problem is how to bring the vm's on them to the inventory of the other esx servers . B.T.W the VC is a single server in the location of the san that went down .

vmwarun - Arun

The normal procedure of registering VMs in an ESX Host is by using the vmware-cmd command.

Bringing a VirtualCenter Server up is easier when you maintain regular backups of your VC Database.

shatztal

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Still what you are saying i know that i can make it manually, i am looking that in case the san in site 1 crashes. then i need to power on the vm's on the san that is on site 2 somehow cause then everything is down and i have only disks with the vm's files. i don't want to connect with the vi to the esx and to import to inventory all the vm's . i want that i this case i can power on all automatic

Paul Solovyovsky

If you use DOubetake or XOsoft you will not need to connect manually, it acts like a cluster. It will also do SQL and Exchange with hostname/ip redirection.

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Are there softwares like these 2 but for free and not just trial ?

Paul Solovyovsky

I don't think that you'll find too many enterprise level solutions for free. Vizioncore's VReplicator is nice because it's per CPU and is about $500/CPU. Doubletake an XOSoft are price but also require you to purchase the OS and applications since they're live. If you use offline VMs than you don't have to purchase double the licensing from MS.

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I didn't understand from about the middle when you wrote about the prices and talked about XOSOFT and Doubletake license .

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ok now i understand. it is but can use it just for the control and not the replication? cause the SAN in both site are SYNCED with SRDF alredy, i need somthing that just takes the disk from the Backup and split the sync for the source site and then brings them up