Evening all,
We've been running Doubletake "software" for a year or so now (I use the term loosely, software generally works IME) and I'm finally fed up of it not working properly, if at all, so I want to look at alternatives that I can depend on.
We're running an almost fully virtualised setup (VI 3.5 Enterprise) with a Sun iSCSI SAN at our head office. There's only one server we need to protect that's physical. We've been using Doubletake SRO/Livewire/Backup installed in the guests to replicate changes to an image server offsite - this can then (in theory) be recovered directly to a virtual machine. The offsite server has several TB fast storage and enough capacity to run all our servers in a DR situation (2 x Xeon 3.0 Quads and 32gb RAM), I want to utilise this for DR in future as it's a nice server and works well.
Up until recently it was replicating OK down about 3mb of relatively high latency internet bandwidth (with compression enabled) but it's being moved to a leased line - a 100mb line that we're getting 10% of.
So what else is out there that will replicate our data in real time and provide quick/easy recovery to a VM? We need to be able to exclude files - temp files, indexes etc - anything that changes a lot but isnt vital for recovery. That requirement eliminates most VMware or SAN replication products (we're not using RDMs). Needs to be byte level replication so we're not sending our entire Exchange DB down the line whenever it changes
Applications to protect:
- MS Exchange 2007 (Win 2008 64 bit)
- SQL 2000 (Win 2003 32 bit)
- Domain Controller (Win 2003 32 bit)
- Progress OpenEdge 10.1 (Win 2003 32 bit)
- MySQL (Win 2003 32 bit)
- File Server (Win 2003 32 bit)
- Voicemail server - Zeacom if anyone's heard of it (Win 2003 32 bit)
Any thoughts on any decent products/solutions out there?
We've been running Doubletake "software" for a year or so now (I use the term loosely, software generally works IME) and I'm finally fed up of it not working properly, if at all, so I want to look at alternatives that I can depend on.
We're running an almost fully virtualised setup (VI 3.5 Enterprise) with a Sun iSCSI SAN at our head office. There's only one server we need to protect that's physical. We've been using Doubletake SRO/Livewire/Backup installed in the guests to replicate changes to an image server offsite - this can then (in theory) be recovered directly to a virtual machine. The offsite server has several TB fast storage and enough capacity to run all our servers in a DR situation (2 x Xeon 3.0 Quads and 32gb RAM), I want to utilise this for DR in future as it's a nice server and works well.
Up until recently it was replicating OK down about 3mb of relatively high latency internet bandwidth (with compression enabled) but it's being moved to a leased line - a 100mb line that we're getting 10% of.
So what else is out there that will replicate our data in real time and provide quick/easy recovery to a VM? We need to be able to exclude files - temp files, indexes etc - anything that changes a lot but isnt vital for recovery. That requirement eliminates most VMware or SAN replication products (we're not using RDMs). Needs to be byte level replication so we're not sending our entire Exchange DB down the line whenever it changes
Applications to protect:
- MS Exchange 2007 (Win 2008 64 bit)
- SQL 2000 (Win 2003 32 bit)
- Domain Controller (Win 2003 32 bit)
- Progress OpenEdge 10.1 (Win 2003 32 bit)
- MySQL (Win 2003 32 bit)
- File Server (Win 2003 32 bit)
- Voicemail server - Zeacom if anyone's heard of it (Win 2003 32 bit)
Any thoughts on any decent products/solutions out there?