What's your preferred software to use for DR replication? Any thoughts or feedback on Veeam and Double-Take?
What about VMware SRM and an associated storage replication adapter?
We currently use Veeam in environment and recommend it for our customers as well. It is hands down the most cost effective solution. If you've ever used their free fastSCP software, the backup and replication software takes it to the next level and beyond. VMware's SRM is awesome as well, but requires hardware specific controllers for the backend SAN devices.
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This might be a bit of a late response but hopefully you'll find this helpful
Veeam is an awesome product for backup and replication, and also much cheaper and easier to implement than SRM
Veeam Backup and Replication 5.0 is due for release soon, they are only waiting for a pending patent right on a new technology
Also they have joined forces with HyperIP to make WAN replication even faster with WAN acceleration and they also mention with these 2 technologies WAN vMotion will be seamless.
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+1 for Veeam.
I've used both for full VM backups and for replication, it works pretty good and it's damn fast.
I am going to move this post to the strategy forum, you will gain a greater audience for you question.
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