Would be interested in hearing what other folks out there are doing for DR these days.
I'll go first, we have an on-prem datacenter, fully managed in-house VMware 3-node cluster (75ish VMs, 10TB ballpark) with block storage SAN, production VMs are backed up by Veeam (backup-to-disk-to-tape). Rock solid setup that we keep current.
For our D/R setup, it is identical to production running on used equipment that is pulled from production, no issues. We use our D/R site frequently for lab work, cloning VMs and testing configuration changes/updates. The initial replication window was slow (we had to seed the replica of large multi-TB file servers), but the changed blocks nightly replication jobs are fine and finish within 6-8 hours.
This has been in place for well over a decade, and while it works, and I am curious about the advances in DRaaS solutions and other off-prem managed solutions.
Would be great if anyone has first-hand experiences to share where they lifted their DR into a DRaaS solution, did you use a DRaaS vendor or build it yourself on AWS/Azure?
I'll go first, we have an on-prem datacenter, fully managed in-house VMware 3-node cluster (75ish VMs, 10TB ballpark) with block storage SAN, production VMs are backed up by Veeam (backup-to-disk-to-tape). Rock solid setup that we keep current.
For our D/R setup, it is identical to production running on used equipment that is pulled from production, no issues. We use our D/R site frequently for lab work, cloning VMs and testing configuration changes/updates. The initial replication window was slow (we had to seed the replica of large multi-TB file servers), but the changed blocks nightly replication jobs are fine and finish within 6-8 hours.
This has been in place for well over a decade, and while it works, and I am curious about the advances in DRaaS solutions and other off-prem managed solutions.
Would be great if anyone has first-hand experiences to share where they lifted their DR into a DRaaS solution, did you use a DRaaS vendor or build it yourself on AWS/Azure?
Statistics: Posted by cerberus — Jun 27, 2024 4:59 am
