Solved Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.
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@Tim_G said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@Dashrender said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
We are not 24/7 shop, so taking the system down after hours to do maintenance doesn't count against our five 9's of uptime.
That's a good point.
When five nines really matter is during production hours... when end users and the business will be negatively impacted. If this is a web hosting company, then five nines matter 24/7. For a typical SMB, fine nines may only mean all services are 100% uptime for only half the day, leaving you with the other half for maintenance and other things.
Pretty common for it to not be over ten hours a day and often only six days a week. Most SMBs have at least one entire day of "free time."
Even FX trading on Wall St. has a GZ from ~7PM Friday night to 5AM Sunday morning. FX is the most demanding of all financial applications.
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@Dashrender said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@JaredBusch said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
Honestly, IMO, from what little we know of the OP's environment, he does not need replication either. Just a single server and a backup.
I see.
Actually I have inquired with our management people about the "acceptable downtime for server", they said "one day" is okay. Here according to management (aka user) is meant for File Server and as you know, they are not aware of what DC, DNS etc. are.
Most of our production work depends on File Server, and based on above info. acceptable downtime for File Server will one day.
And for any hardware failure, the repair service will be next working day. The vendor from whom we have warranty tie up are working 5 days a week and we are working 6 days a week. If any failure happens at last working day on the week and spare part is not available immediately with them, we may consider around "3 days downtime for server to come up"
And you know, how the situation of IT guyz in this process.
"So I am thinking of Server Redundancy, for company benefit" and of course "to have piece of mind for myself
"Do you need the server itself to be up though? In your situation if I was going to have extended outage, I'd grab a PC with enough storage and install Hyper-v and then restore my data to that. Or look at a better warranty, like 4/6 hour response. That would be less expensive than a whole other server and one less box to worry about, that much less power usage, that much less worry about licensing, etc.
This one is also nice idea
I will keep it in my side note.So I need to have a PC with sufficient space. In emergency or required I will setup Hyper-v or restore the baremetal OS directly to physical pc and manage until Primary server is recovered. So here, in this case I need to make sure, I will copy back the whole data from Temp server (as it got updated with some data). Am I correct ?
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@Dashrender said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
Assuming your current server license is 2008 or newer, you get two VMs on one host.
With your current setup it sounds like you are using and services on a single install of Windows server, so you can move that to a VM, then create a second VM on that same host, install Veeam to it. I'd purchase a 2/4 drive NAS for the backup target.
You could do this all on your current server assuming is has enough resources (CPU, RAM, storage). Then purchase Veeam essentials ($850ish), NAS and drives ($1000ish).
It's Windows Server 2012 R2 standard. Yeah, we can it for two guests on Hyper-V.
And we do have NAS box for Backup target.
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@Tim_G said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
Okay. I will take help from Management to do maths about Redundancy requirement.
Let's assume, Server Redundancy is necessary after doing maths, could you please advice which one option for Server Redundancy is better ?What kind of redundancy do you need? RAID gives you redundancy, hence the "R".
What does management "NEED" according to their numbers? I'm sure they want the 5 nines of uptime, who doesn't... but what do the numbers say?
If it's about RAID. We have RAID 1 on this Windows Server. I know RAID 10 is best option, but this is what we have currently. But still it is 1 Drive fault tolerant.
Well, this RAID is upto drive failure, it's not going to cover RAM/motherboard/processor etc failure, right ? that's why I was talking about whole separate server.
But as @Dashrender mentioned, a temp PC can do the trick in emergency.
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@openit how long does it take you to get a new server to replace that one should it totally die (like go up in flames) or how long to get it fixed if only part of it dies?
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit how long does it take you to get a new server to replace that one should it totally die (like go up in flames) or how long to get it fixed if only part of it dies?
If it's only about parts, it will depends on our Service Provider, from whom we have server warranty contract. According to them (service provider) , next business day response and I have no idea if they can fix it completely by next business day itself......
If it's about getting new server if main server totally dies, I am afraid it can take longer than repairing things. As I need to get quote, propose to management, approval, delivery and restoring the OS and Data from Backup. I believe management will not take long to respond on such critical or emergency cases.
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit how long does it take you to get a new server to replace that one should it totally die (like go up in flames) or how long to get it fixed if only part of it dies?
If it's only about parts, it will depends on our Service Provider, from whom we have server warranty contract. According to them (service provider) , next business day response and I have no idea if they can fix it completely by next business day itself......
If it's about getting new server if main server totally dies, I am afraid it can take longer than repairing things. As I need to get quote, propose to management, approval, delivery and restoring the OS and Data from Backup. I believe management will not take long to respond on such critical or emergency cases.
Well, a full server is what the vendor does when they can't fix it in their time frame, in theory.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit how long does it take you to get a new server to replace that one should it totally die (like go up in flames) or how long to get it fixed if only part of it dies?
If it's only about parts, it will depends on our Service Provider, from whom we have server warranty contract. According to them (service provider) , next business day response and I have no idea if they can fix it completely by next business day itself......
If it's about getting new server if main server totally dies, I am afraid it can take longer than repairing things. As I need to get quote, propose to management, approval, delivery and restoring the OS and Data from Backup. I believe management will not take long to respond on such critical or emergency cases.
Well, a full server is what the vendor does when they can't fix it in their time frame, in theory.
huh - that's not my experience. I'll qualify this.
IBM server 13 years ago. Client ordered brand new server, I installed it, and it had problems (sadly now I can't recall the actual problem). IBM came out and replaced the RAM day 1, called on day 2 still have problems, they replaced the mobo, several hours later, confirmed not fixed, replaced RAID card on Day 3.
In the end we did get a new server after every part was changed except the chassis. And even then, I'm not sure it was IBM who replaced it, or the ITSP I worked for at the time.
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@Dashrender said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit how long does it take you to get a new server to replace that one should it totally die (like go up in flames) or how long to get it fixed if only part of it dies?
If it's only about parts, it will depends on our Service Provider, from whom we have server warranty contract. According to them (service provider) , next business day response and I have no idea if they can fix it completely by next business day itself......
If it's about getting new server if main server totally dies, I am afraid it can take longer than repairing things. As I need to get quote, propose to management, approval, delivery and restoring the OS and Data from Backup. I believe management will not take long to respond on such critical or emergency cases.
Well, a full server is what the vendor does when they can't fix it in their time frame, in theory.
huh - that's not my experience. I'll qualify this.
IBM server 13 years ago. Client ordered brand new server, I installed it, and it had problems (sadly now I can't recall the actual problem). IBM came out and replaced the RAM day 1, called on day 2 still have problems, they replaced the mobo, several hours later, confirmed not fixed, replaced RAID card on Day 3.
In the end we did get a new server after every part was changed except the chassis. And even then, I'm not sure it was IBM who replaced it, or the ITSP I worked for at the time.
Okay, it's what GOOD server vendors do when they can't figure it out. IBM couldn't get their own stuff working internally, so that doesn't surprise me. That's exactly why IBM doesn't depend on IBM gear themselves.
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I know HPE will and has done full swaps for us. I mean mostly they would just replace the whole mobo, CPU and RAM. But when needed, whole machine.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@Dashrender said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit how long does it take you to get a new server to replace that one should it totally die (like go up in flames) or how long to get it fixed if only part of it dies?
If it's only about parts, it will depends on our Service Provider, from whom we have server warranty contract. According to them (service provider) , next business day response and I have no idea if they can fix it completely by next business day itself......
If it's about getting new server if main server totally dies, I am afraid it can take longer than repairing things. As I need to get quote, propose to management, approval, delivery and restoring the OS and Data from Backup. I believe management will not take long to respond on such critical or emergency cases.
Well, a full server is what the vendor does when they can't fix it in their time frame, in theory.
huh - that's not my experience. I'll qualify this.
IBM server 13 years ago. Client ordered brand new server, I installed it, and it had problems (sadly now I can't recall the actual problem). IBM came out and replaced the RAM day 1, called on day 2 still have problems, they replaced the mobo, several hours later, confirmed not fixed, replaced RAID card on Day 3.
In the end we did get a new server after every part was changed except the chassis. And even then, I'm not sure it was IBM who replaced it, or the ITSP I worked for at the time.
Okay, it's what GOOD server vendors do when they can't figure it out. IBM couldn't get their own stuff working internally, so that doesn't surprise me. That's exactly why IBM doesn't depend on IBM gear themselves.
I want to downvote this post to show my disgust at IBM, but I know that's now how it would be taken.. so here's my post instead.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
I know HPE will and has done full swaps for us. I mean mostly they would just replace the whole mobo, CPU and RAM. But when needed, whole machine.
I've never been in that situation. I've never needed more than an HD replaced by HPE. They've never given me any hassle over it. And their ability and willingness to help even with things like driver/firmware updates is/was awesome.
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I used HP Proliant support for a very long time and there is nothing like it. I could get more service from a error message in five minutes from HP than I could get in six months of not being able to get a server working with IBM.
