Hi all,
i know there are some geeks out there and i was wondering if i could pick your brains for a minute.
I have two servers, both running server 2008 Hyper-v
Server 1 has server 2008 as host environment and sbs2008 & Server 2003 in two virtual instances
Server 2 has Server 2008 as the host environment running hyper-v with one 2008 server running Terminal services on it
I need a backup strategy for this, i have a budget of around £2k, what I would like to acheive is a system where if one of the host machines were to fail i could bring it back quickly onto the other server machine.
Both servers are specced with the fact that either one could potentially run all 3 servers at once, both servers hardware are exactly the same and have been specced with hyper-v in mind, both on 64bit.
So far i have looked at acronis, which for £1k will give me the ability to backup files or images of one host machine and all 3 virtual machines, potentially sending the images to the opposite machine, sounds great.
So really im wondering if anyone has done this before, and if whether im making this more complicated than it needs to be...
Can i just simply copy the .vhd files and snapshot images from one machine to the next, is there a way of importing in hyper-v like there used to be in vmware.
ive been trying to get in touch with symantec backup exec to see if they do anything similar but their support is useless.
Ta