Recoverpoint for VMs - Pre-Flight Checklist
As I've worked with customers deploying Recoverpoint for VMs pilots in their environment I've put together a small "pre-flight" checklist to help people jumpstart their deployment. Several customers got stalled in the process, not because the product is difficult to install, but because they weren't aware of all of the IP address requirements and needed to go back to the network team. If you aren't aware Recoverpoint for Virtual Machines is a storage agnostic version of EMC's Recoverpoint. Recoverpoint provides the ability to rewind a system to a specific point in time, as well as remote replication of the changes. Both Recoverpoint (for storage arrays) and Recoverpoint for VMs leverage a journal volume for all writes to provide this point in time recovery ability. The key difference between Recoverpoint for VMs and the array based products is the location of the write splitter. In the array based product writes are split to the journal volume in the a...