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How to maintain consistency between application server VMs and database physical servers in DR scenario ?

I am looking at Disaster Recovery solution that is based on VMware SRM. The main challenge is SRM only protects VMs. Which is fine as the applications are running on VMs but their database is running on physical servers (due to support requirement). How do to replicate physical DB to protected site and yet maintain consistency with applications (app use storage array replication) is the puzzling question.

Your help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
J

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

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onlinerack

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Thank you very much Gents for the helpful responses. The area I am trying to understand, would any of these solutions grantee the VM app state will be in sync with the dababase on a physical server given both will fail-over separately (App using Storage array replication with SRM and the other is DB physical server using a different replication/fail-over method)?

Regards,
J

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

Vision Solution should work okay, as for guarantees that's a strong word, and you would need to discuss that with Vision Solutions, or test and trial the product.

onlinerack

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Thank you Gents, that has offered me enough to start. Thanks again.

Regards,
J