Hello,
I have to build a small VMware architecture with Storage Appliance for a customer, and I'm not used to do it yet.
Here is my customer case :
- We have 2 physical servers in the Data Center 1 (DC1)
- We have 1 other physical server, but located in the Data Center 2 (DC2)
- The customer wants High Availability for the DC1, and a solution of disaster recovery plan for DC2
Here is my design :
- License : VMware Essentials Plus 5 + Storage Appliance
- Cluster with the 2 ESXi servers of DC1 (with storage appliance), and an external vCenter
- Standalone ESXi server in DC2 (only for DRP)
- Use of Data Recovery to backup virtual machines on a NAS (located in DC2)
- If DC1 fails, I want to be able to run the virtual machines on the standalone ESXi server, through Data Recovery
My questions :
- Is my design correct?
- Are there pre-requisites to run Data Recovery with the standalone server in DC2 ? (2nd vCenter, 2nd vSphere license...)
Any other advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Sylvain
