replication of VM

[mikeleahyirelan]

hi

does anyone here have any experice / preference of using vizioncore or veeam for replication of vm's. we want to do incremental replication of the vm's on a nightly basis

[Rockapot]

Vizioncore vReplicator works well, no real issues for small environments. Dead simple to use...

I have not tried Veeam's product so cant give you much info there..

Carl

[athlon_crazy]

Never test Veeam but for vReplicator, it's very pretty straight forward and you can do :

• replicate online VM

• replicate source VM to many Datastore (local, shared) (license only base on source VM)

• replicate source VM to one remote site (more than one site require additional license)

• Initiate DR Failover

• VCB integration

• Differential Hybrid backup (Those like Falconstor)

VMware newbie..

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[mikeleahyirelan]

hi.

thanks for the replies. we use about 3 TB on the production site for the vm's. the dr site will have storage of 6 TB. did i hear something about space being needed on the production server for snapshots etc???

[athlon_crazy]

3TB but you can assign small LUN for your Datastore (300-500GB) and yes you should need to consider number of VMs per Datastore, VMs swap, snapshot size & etc. I always keep maintain approximately 10% free on each Datastore for snapshot since snapshot removal need twice of your vmdk size (merge delta with original .vmdk before remove the snapshot).

VMware newbie..

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