DR Site Planning

[Eric_Thibodeau]

I would like to set up a DR site with the following configuration and I would like to knowhow it can be done.

1. A SAN and a Blade Center in the company and the same at the DR site.

2. The SANs mirror each other and therefore all the data for the VMs.

3. A Virtaul Center Server in each Location?

4. In the event of a disaster, "flick a switch and were up and running"?

I know that you can't have two VC servers managing the same objects.

Can I rename the VC and Hosts at the DR site and have the VMs believe nothing ever happened?

If not possible then can I migrate VMs between VCs/Hosts at each site?

Is there a simpler way I just don't know about?

[esiebert7625]

There are alot of configuration options and products for DR/BC. You might give some of these links a read....

Vmware users explore disaster recover options - http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid94_gci1253386,00.html

Vmware ESX Server and Storage Architecture Best Practices for Performance, Backup, and Disaster Recovery - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/adc9591.pdf

Using Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning to Drive Virtualization in the Production Data Center - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/adc9732.pdf

An Aggressive Approach Using P2V to Address Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/adc9938.pdf

How Management Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Virtualization: A Brush with Disaster Leads to a Virtualization-Based Disaster Recovery Plan at the Las Vegas Valley Water District - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct0046.pdf

Leveraging VMware ESX Server in Disaster Recovery Solutions - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct5070.pdf

Implementing Effective Backup Strategies For Disaster Recovery - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct9502.pdf

VMware Infrastructure 3 Capabilities for Improving Disaster Recovery - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct9552.pdf

Using Virtual Infrastructure as a High Availability Platform for Physical Production Servers - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct9560.pdf

RepliStor: Disaster Recovery and Data Migration Solution for VMware Environments - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct9636.pdf

VMware ESX Server as a Foundation for High Availability and Disaster Recovery for the Microsoft Server Platform - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct0107.pdf

Migrating Server Operations from Remote Sites to the Data Center for Disaster Recovery and Protection -

http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct0893.pdf

Innovative Approaches for High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Your VMware Infrastructure Environment - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct9708.pdf

Vmware Consolidated Backup for Disaster Recovery - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/labs2006/vmworld.06.lab01-VCB-PRESENTATION.pdf

HA/DR of Physical and Virtual Environments Using VMware ESX Server and Double-Take for Virtual Systems - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/bct9468.pdf

Platespin P2V DR - http://www.platespin.com/p2vdr/

Double-Take for virtual systems - http://www.doubletake.com/products/virtual-systems/default.aspx

Double-Take Replication in the VMware Environment - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_doubletake.pdf

Replistor - http://software.emc.com/products/software_az/replistor.htm

ESX 3 Disaster Recovery site options - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=473674

Disaster Recovery Plans - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=517701

Disaster recovery site VM Startup - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=514046

Disaster Recovery for Vms - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=502276

[williamarrata]

For your "Flick Switch" try www.scalent.com

They have a pretty good solution for DR sites. Hope this helps.