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I don't know the requirements off hand for the Connection broker offhand but if it's 1 vCPU, then FT should work, you'll want to verify the list of FT requirements. Regarding the replica VM, I don't think FT is design to support Replica VM along with supported Linked Clones referencing the replica VM.

Here is a good blog post on how Base and Replica VMs work: http://rodos.haywood.org/2008/12/storage-analysis-of-vmware-view.html

Essentially you have some gold master VM that can have multiple snapshots for specific points in time (e.g. VM that has snapshot for XP build and Vista biuld). The replica VM is basically a full copy of this gold master VM based on a specific snapshot in which the Linked Clones are then created from, this allows you separate the LC's back to the gold master which allows you to upgrade/patch the gold master without affecting the LC's. If you decide to update the VM XP system to say SP2, then you'll create a new replica from this new snapshot and provision a new Linked Clone tree, you will not be able to just switch the existing Linked Clones over since they reference an old VM and point in time.

Hopefully this clears up some of your questions

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