vFoglight, vOptimizer Pro and Pro bundle connection vRanger Pro

As part of a new version of the virtual environment we planned to buy the Pro Bundle vEssentials (including vRanger Pro connection, vOptimizer Pro and Pro vFoglight).

My question has to do with where they can be installed. We get three, brand new, host servers Dell PowerEdge R710 (48 GB of RAM, dual Xeon E5620, etc.), a single EqualLogic SAN (started by) and new switches HP ProCurve (config which is yet to be finalised). I'd love to be able to install software VizionCore on VM (link to a SQL 2005 VM server for the databases), but the system requirements I've read that it sounds like you need to use a physical hardware. We don't talk a great environment here (30-50 VM of current growth, possible more of course). We get the 8 taking VMware Enterprise Plus beam and vCenter Server standard. This means that we will be able to apply the license to a host of the fourth at any time that we see the need (would be an another R710 either identical to what we get as close as we can get).

With all the power in the servers three hosts and the low (relatively) County VM, is there no real reason why we could not install the VizionCore on VM products? A virtual machine by product, or two on a single server and the third on his own or all three on a virtual machine... I could easily allocate four vCPU virtual machine and enough RAM (the advantage of having 48GB per host). I plan use DRS, so the virtual machine will be able to float between hosts as settings dictate. We are a partner of VMware first implementation of this project (I'll do a good part of the generation upwards before arriving at better use of their time), who are very familiar with the product (their recommendation is the reason why we intend to use it).

So with the basin of DRS of 57.6 GHz (56xx series Xeons) and 144 GB of RAM to share, which will be more than enough? Maybe with the next version of VMware FT they bear more than a simple vCPU so we could use it for the virtual machine. Storage is not a problem, since we have more than 5 TB LUN (even after losing for RAID 50 and instant EQL).

We are also looking to be able to check in to one of these system libraries at the place where I work. Is there something special I need to know in order to get to the operation too? I'm looking to have multiple levels of redundancy in our backup and restore process. I'm not comfortable with only having one or even two. I wish that the final level will be backups on tape that we can even send off site. Basically, going to the EQL snapshots serve daily (at least) keep 2 weeks. VRanger Pro of the connection will happen its backups as well, keep enough to restore back to at least two weeks later (or a month). If anyone needs a restore over a month back, we will be able to pull in back via the tape backup. Keep backups on tape for at least one year, with more to be the target. I realize that it is perhaps an exaggeration, but if I can provide a fast food of a file deleted, or bad VM, which would have otherwise been lost (which look us bad for customers and possible cost the company money) it will be all worth it. Depending on the amount of space used, I could even extend the clichés to the retention of 1 month, vRanger pro 3 to 6 month of connection and then perform backups on monthly bandwidth (although I still prefer to have fewer differences between the bands).

I am interested in any suggestions...

Yes, you can do it. As long as you do not use a SAN backup (with a virtual machine for vRanger of connection, you must make backups of direct-to-target on LAN - that is to say you can't 'virtualize' on a network SAN or iSCSI HBA connection). If you make the LAN-based backups (which should be more than sufficient, given the size of the environment that you're talking about), vRanger connection will work quite happily on a virtual machine. vFoglight is a different animal, however, which work like on a physical machine. However, it can be installed on a virtual machine as well. Keep in mind that vFoglight is resource hungry, so to minimize the impact this will have on the rest of your virtual machine environment, you can 'compartmentalize' as much as you could: ESX host resources (and make sure that the proposed Console of Service optimizations are in place.
I can't speak to taking snapshots Equalogic, but if it puts the snapshot files in the virtual machine file systems, this could be problematic. Instead of using snapshots (of any type) as a form of backup (they are really not meant for that), instead, consider using your backup file/archive level restores to restore files/folders quickly without restoring a whole VM. It is my experience that these shots fouillisent the VMFS and cause problems during backup and restore. There is really a snapshot as temporary "fallback" point, as for example, when you install a hotfix. You turn on the server, install the hotfix. If the virtual machine comes back OK, remove the snapshot in a short period of time. Remember that snapshots are NOT "copies" of the virtual machine. These are files that track changes to flat files VMs. When you create they are small. Over time, they may reach huge proportions and really make life miserable for the admin. VM...

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