Hi Team , could anyone please help to veify if it works in this scenario.
We have PROD site running vmware vcenter 5.0, esxi5.0, SRM 5.0 , on Netapp 3210 filer ONTAP8.1 version. VMs are windows server 2008, MS SQL2008 as major DB. Database files on virtual RDM. Only FCOE for this site. AD is a physical 2003 server. The rest are VMs
We are proposing to have SRM deployment for DR site. The DR site will be synced with netapp SRA snapmirrror, controlled by SRM5.0 console. DR site has no FCOE, only iSCSI and NFS license availble. Still RDM but using iScsi. vcenter 5.0, esxi 5.0, netapp 2040 ONTAP8.1 .
My questions are:
1. if VMware SRM support DR failover for this case with different protocol ,PROD is FCoE ,DR is iscsi
2. If SRM support failover with RDM in our case
3. If the AD server at DR site need to be installed as a new to be best practice, or we need to use SRM to fail the prod AD over to DR site. what is recommended.
4. If the physical AD can be kept like the current way and SRM still supported
5. For DR site, which is best practice ? To use NFS for data store and iSCSI for iscsi? Or both datastore and RDM use iSCSI LUNs to simplify?
Thanks!