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data center move considerations

Hello,

We're in the midst of planning a data center move or possibly bringing up another data center for a disaster recovery option and I wanted to know what some of the considerations might be? For those who've done either one of these procedures what should we be looking into and how to go about it as far as the solution for each? We're mostly a Windows and Vmware shop with about 50 servers in total.

rharland2009

It's a deep and involved discussion, for sure!

Here are things I'd be thinking about:

1. Your budget.
2. Your level of VMware licensing, if your goal with a DR site is quick failover.
3. If you WILL use VMware as the main mechanism of DR protection, the bigger the pipe between your DC and your DR site the better. It's hard work keeping things truly synchronized and replicated.
4. Do you own or lease your hardware - that is, are your hosts and storage yours or purchased as a service?
5. Do you have assets that face the outside world? If so, how will you handle DNS at your new/DR/second site?
6. How will you connect the two sites - MPLS, VPN, something else?
7. What's your RTO?

That's a small start!

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

BIggest issue is Networking?

Stretched VLAN between the two, different Network Address-ing?

50 VMs ?

Does not seem many, have you thought about vCloud Air ?

Migrate to Azure, AWS ?

Are you going to use SRM ?

Do you have a SAN at present ?

vSphere Replication, or SRM and SAN replication?

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