Hi Everyone,
Disaster recovery keeps coming up with folks moving off VMware, usually as some version of "what replaces SRM?" We've answered pieces of this in threads for years, so we finally sat down and wrote the whole thing up properly.
Mapping VMware DR Features to Proxmox VE: SRM, vSphere Replication, and Site Recovery https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-vmware-disaster-recovery/
The technote maps each VMware DR feature to its nearest native PVE equivalent: pvesr and pve-zsync, the PBS two-site pattern, the HA manager, PDM, stretched clusters with Ceph stretch mode, and array-based replication. It also walks through what doing SRM's job by hand involves: configurations, identity, addressing, start order, and testing. There's a feature mapping table at the end if you want the one-screen version. We stuck to native tooling; third-party tools exist but are out of scope here.
Everything was checked against current docs (PVE 9.2 / PBS 4.2 / PDM 1.1) or confirmed in our lab, and where we couldn't verify something, we say so. One thing we'll say up front: we have never run Ceph RBD mirroring failover ourselves, and public operational reports are scarce. If you've run it through a real or rehearsed site failure, we'd love to learn more and update the doc.
If you're doing DR on PVE in a way we didn't cover, or you think we got something wrong, post it here. We'll update the article.
As always, let me know if you have questions, corrections, or if we've missed anything!
Enjoy, The Blockbridge Team!
Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
Disaster recovery keeps coming up with folks moving off VMware, usually as some version of "what replaces SRM?" We've answered pieces of this in threads for years, so we finally sat down and wrote the whole thing up properly.
Mapping VMware DR Features to Proxmox VE: SRM, vSphere Replication, and Site Recovery https://kb.blockbridge.com/technote/proxmox-vmware-disaster-recovery/
The technote maps each VMware DR feature to its nearest native PVE equivalent: pvesr and pve-zsync, the PBS two-site pattern, the HA manager, PDM, stretched clusters with Ceph stretch mode, and array-based replication. It also walks through what doing SRM's job by hand involves: configurations, identity, addressing, start order, and testing. There's a feature mapping table at the end if you want the one-screen version. We stuck to native tooling; third-party tools exist but are out of scope here.
Everything was checked against current docs (PVE 9.2 / PBS 4.2 / PDM 1.1) or confirmed in our lab, and where we couldn't verify something, we say so. One thing we'll say up front: we have never run Ceph RBD mirroring failover ourselves, and public operational reports are scarce. If you've run it through a real or rehearsed site failure, we'd love to learn more and update the doc.
If you're doing DR on PVE in a way we didn't cover, or you think we got something wrong, post it here. We'll update the article.
As always, let me know if you have questions, corrections, or if we've missed anything!
Enjoy, The Blockbridge Team!
Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox
