So many choices for Virtualization, need help narrowing down.
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@scottalanmiller I think Option 1 or 2 is what I'm leaning to. We're going to have backups of the files, and VM's on the uni-trends appliance, so I'm not terribly worried about recover-ability anymore. As part of our DR plan we have a vendor that will provide hardware, power, connectivity and space. So if I have everything backed up and taken off site, I should be able to get a replacement Unitrends appliance, bring in my Backups, and get rock and rolling pretty quickly.
I'm leaning toward Jared's idea of having one host with smaller fast drives for my heavier workloads, and a host with lots of slower drives. That way, I'd be comfortable with the performance, but still have fail-over capability if I need it.
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@PSX_Defector I'm one dude, and if we have a disaster I'll be pulled in a million directions. So installing OS's is something I'd rather not do.
I will stick with Vmware more than likely. I've gone the Hyper-V route, and Vmware is just to freaking easy to use for me to move away from it.
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@RobQ said:
@PSX_Defector I'm one dude, and if we have a disaster I'll be pulled in a million directions. So installing OS's is something I'd rather not do.
Then keep some base templates with the info. Restoring the OS is about a five minute deal in that case. Installing from scratch is ~45 minutes to get to a functional OS level. Restoration is what is gonna take a long time.
Either way, it's set it and forget it for the most part in a "holy shit the world is ending" scenario. Most often your gonna be doing restores of morons who jacked with the files. Or like what greeted me this morning, someone jacking with all the permissions on their content server, all 4,000,000 images.
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I agree with PSX. Very often you don't want full backups, just of the bits that matter.
