Hello all,
I have two sites, let's call them Site A and Site B. I have one external PSC in Site A and one external PSC in Site B. Both are Windows Server 2012 R2. They are both in the same SSO domain but there are two sites in the domain.
In Site A I have two Windows 2012 R2 servers. One just for vCenter 6 and one just for the vCenter Microsoft SQL server database.
In Site B I have just one Windows 2012 R2 server which has both MS SQL and vCenter 6 installed.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to protect this environment. Here's what I'm thinking:
Protecting the PSCs: As I have two, if one failed I can point the affected vCenter to the remaining one. I've testing this successfully. If both failed (some sort of corruption which is then replicated??) then I would simply deploy a new PSC and point both vCenters to it. I presume that would work? Assuming I can tolerate a couple of hours of vCenter downtime to get the new PSC up and running and the vCenter servers connected, am I missing something that would prevent that approach from working?
Protecting vCenter server and SQL database at Site A: I plan to use Veeam to create nightly replicas of the vCenter server and the MS SQL server. If the vCenter server fails I revert back to the previous evening's Veeam replica. If the MS SQL server fails I revert back to the Veeam replica. Aside from lost data, are there any other implications for this approach?
Protecting the vCenter server and SQL database at Site B should be relatively simple as both the vCenter and the SQL database reside on the one VM. Simply power on the Veeam replica if the live server was lost?
The vSphere Installation and Setup document only talks about using vSphere Data Protection to protect a vCenter environment. Can the same level of protection be achieved using Veeam instead?
Thanks in advance.
Ross