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What is needed for a Disaster Recovery Site?
We are looking to create a Disaster Recovery Site for some of our client's Servers. We are installing a VMWare vSphere ESXi high availability cluster in a Datacenter for this purpose.
We would like to be able to backup our client's Servers every day, and be able to run them as a Virtual Machine at our DR Site so the clients can use them if their own Servers fail.
1. What are the different ways to accomplish this?
2. Do our clients have to be running their Servers virtual, or can they be physical?
3. What backup software can do this? Backup Exec? Veeam? Others?
4. Would we need some kind of BDR Appliance at each client's site?
5. What else is needed for this scenario?
Thanks for your help!
We would like to be able to backup our client's Servers every day, and be able to run them as a Virtual Machine at our DR Site so the clients can use them if their own Servers fail.
1. What are the different ways to accomplish this?
2. Do our clients have to be running their Servers virtual, or can they be physical?
3. What backup software can do this? Backup Exec? Veeam? Others?
4. Would we need some kind of BDR Appliance at each client's site?
5. What else is needed for this scenario?
Thanks for your help!
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Make sure the links between the two sites have enough capacity to handle whatever load is going to be required.
Just work out how long it takes to pump 1TB down a 1Gb link (probably around 4 hours). Think about the sync in the first place and the resync back after the disaster is fixed.
Just work out how long it takes to pump 1TB down a 1Gb link (probably around 4 hours). Think about the sync in the first place and the resync back after the disaster is fixed.
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There are various ways to acheive this, even some third party tools to replicate the SAN of the Production data center to the DR data center
2. Do our clients have to be running their Servers virtual, or can they be physical?
they can be physical also, in your case you are using virtual servers.
3. What backup software can do this? Backup Exec? Veeam? Others?
We have a third party software called perpetuitti which will do this task
4. Would we need some kind of BDR Appliance at each client's site?
I am not sure about this...
5. What else is needed for this scenario?
You needed a WAN to have a connectivity between Production site and DR site so that the storage gets replicated on the scheduled basis.