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ulisesg
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‎02-26-2019 12:05 PM
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VMware Essential Plus Licensing Question

I want to know if I could make a cluster with 2 host (SAN Storage) and the other host (with local storage) to make a BackUP Server using Veem Backup and Replication, and for a Disaster Recovery Site, using Raid 10 HDD.

Another question is we could have a significant difference between 7.2K or 10K SAS HDD for these configuration.

Thanks for your answers.

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a_p_
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‎02-26-2019 12:14 PM
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The Essentials Kit includes licenses for 3 hosts (with up to two CPUs), and it's completely up to you how you set them up. You can use Veeam B&R to replicate all VMs to the third host, if it has sufficient resources available.

For the disks it actually depends on whether these are SAS, NL-SAS, or SATA disks (regarding IOPS), and also on the RAID controller that they are connected to. Make sure that you use a RAID controller with a BBU/BBWC, i.e. one that offers write-back caching. This makes a huge difference in performance.


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a_p_
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‎02-26-2019 12:14 PM
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The Essentials Kit includes licenses for 3 hosts (with up to two CPUs), and it's completely up to you how you set them up. You can use Veeam B&R to replicate all VMs to the third host, if it has sufficient resources available.

For the disks it actually depends on whether these are SAS, NL-SAS, or SATA disks (regarding IOPS), and also on the RAID controller that they are connected to. Make sure that you use a RAID controller with a BBU/BBWC, i.e. one that offers write-back caching. This makes a huge difference in performance.


André

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ulisesg
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‎02-26-2019 04:11 PM
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Thank you so much for your answer.

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