Design Virtual environment across 2 sites

[Davshire]

I am in the process of designing Virtual infrastructure for my client who has a unique requirement.

Environment:

They run Test/DEV and production in virtual environment.

Test/dev VMs are double in numbers as compared to Prod VMs.

The environment is spread across two physical sites and well connected.

Test/dev will be running at one site (ESX servers located on Site1)

Prod will be running at another site (ESX servers located on Site2)

Requirement:

1.Make sure Test/Dev VMs run on only Site 1 ESX servers and Prod VMs run on site 2 ESX servers

2.Enable FT in case Site 2 goes down, all the prod VMs move to Site1 ESX servers after turning off the test/dev VMs.

3.This process need to be automated.

4.Also want to take advantage of resourse pools.

Total ESX servers will be 15.

No plans for using SRM.

Any design suggessions?

Thanks

[AntonVZhbankov]

>1.Make sure Test/Dev VMs run on only Site 1 ESX servers and Prod VMs run on site 2 ESX servers

2 different clusters, that's all.

>2.Enable FT in case Site 2 goes down, all the prod VMs move to Site1 ESX servers after turning off the test/dev VMs.

If you're not gonna use SRM then scheduled replication can be done. For example with Veeam Backup & Replication.

>3.This process need to be automated.

It won't be fully automated process anyway. You have to press BIG RED BUTTON manually. But you can write a couple of scripts and automate failover process. Veeam Backup supports PowerShell scripting.

>4.Also want to take advantage of resourse pools.

Not a problem.

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