Disaster Recovery Solutions for KVM Hypervisors

Thanks to all the help and ideas in my Server Specs for Virtual Environment thread, I think a hyper-converged solution is going to be the right fit for my small business environment. I’m looking at hyper-converged systems because it reduces the overall management of the virtual world. This is important for me as well since I am the “all-one-IT-guy” running everything from programming, help desk support, and sys admin roles here at the office.
Question - Scale Computing offers a disaster recovery solution that allows one to have a secondary HC3 stack at a different geographical location. Thus if one location gets wiped out, you can fall back to your secondary.
My company does not have a another geographical location, so I was looking at data center solutions to replicate to. It appears that most data centers only support Hyper-V and...
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Thanks to all the help and ideas in my Server Specs for Virtual Environment thread, I think a hyper-converged solution is going to be the right fit for my small business environment. I’m looking at hyper-converged systems because it reduces the overall management of the virtual world. This is important for me as well since I am the “all-one-IT-guy” running everything from programming, help desk support, and sys admin roles here at the office.
Question - Scale Computing offers a disaster recovery solution that allows one to have a secondary HC3 stack at a different geographical location. Thus if one location gets wiped out, you can fall back to your secondary.
My company does not have a another geographical location, so I was looking at data center solutions to replicate to. It appears that most data centers only support Hyper-V and...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

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