Solved Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.
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Hi all,
This is my future plan to setup Windows Server Redundancy ( DC+File Server).
Part 1: Physical Server
Currently our DC + File Server is running on one Physical Server. Is there any option at all for physical server replication ? with other server, so that we can make second server as primary manually or automatically in case of main server failure ?
Part 2: Virtual Server
I believe, physical server replication is not available and VM Replica is the best option.
Now I am trying to understand Hyper V Free Replica VS Veeam Replica Paid:
1. Hyper V Replica : I know it's poor man's DC. So there should some limitations or hard work as it comes for free. For me, redundancy matters and ok with Veeam pricing.
2. Hyper V Failover Cluster : As it will require two virtual servers (of course best option to be on different servers), so two physical servers and SAN/NAS, which is out of budget (not an option for me) and I know don't understand how it's redundant incase of SAN failure ?
3. Veeam B&R Replica Standard : I have chosen standard (perpetual) , as it's ok for pricing and features. Here my confusion is, as it's saying Backup and Replication, for the Backup if we set backup target to NAS, it's fine,
a) But for replication we should set target to Physical Server ? which is with Hyper-V, so that we can Fire UP to make it as primary server in case of Actual Server failure, right ? I believe everything will be up and runs normally within some 30 minutes with around 1 hour data loss (let's say) ?
b) Once the main (original) server is okay and ready to run again (from failure), how about changed/updated data with secondary server ?( which was acting as primary server), whether Veeam software will update back ?
c) How it's going to work as Backup ? as it's replicating with all changes at the same time (like mirroring) ? Is that because of restore point or versioning of replica ?
Thanks for your time !!
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
You should never run a physical server. I can't tell if you are saying that you are, or just mentioning where your VMs are running.
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
1. Hyper V Replica : I know it's poor man's DC. So there should some limitations or hard work as it comes for free. For me, redundancy matters and ok with Veeam pricing.
Why, if hard work is okay, would you do this instead of real high availability with Starwind?
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
2. Hyper V Failover Cluster : As it will require two virtual servers (of course best option to be on different servers), so two physical servers and SAN/NAS, which is out of budget (not an option for me) and I know don't understand how it's redundant incase of SAN failure ?
It's not redundant at all, this is super risky and should never be considered. This is the famous inverted pyramid of doom and costs a lot and provides nothing. Slow, complex, expensive and fragile. All bad.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/8743/risk-single-server-versus-the-smallest-inverted-pyramid-design/
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
c) How it's going to work as Backup ? as it's replicating with all changes at the same time (like mirroring) ? Is that because of restore point or versioning of replica ?
It is not. Replicants are never backups. You still need backups as usual.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
You should never run a physical server. I can't tell if you are saying that you are, or just mentioning where your VMs are running.
Yes, we are on Physical Server. I understand how good to be with VMs in the view of Backup and Disaster recovery options.
This is the environment I got here when I joined to this company, and planning for Virtual environment. So prior to implementing, I am learning and researching.....and of course, discussing here
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
1. Hyper V Replica : I know it's poor man's DC. So there should some limitations or hard work as it comes for free. For me, redundancy matters and ok with Veeam pricing.
Why, if hard work is okay, would you do this instead of real high availability with Starwind?
No idea about Starwind HA. I will chat with Sales guy soon to understand the things...
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
c) How it's going to work as Backup ? as it's replicating with all changes at the same time (like mirroring) ? Is that because of restore point or versioning of replica ?
It is not. Replicants are never backups. You still need backups as usual.
Okay, agreed that there is no Backup in this Replication option by Veeam. Even if it exists, I still consider Backup.
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If you have two servers today, and you want to run a HA hypervisor environment. Purchase Starwinds VSAN, install hyperV to both host and configure them. Proceed with the StarWinds installation to create a HA environment.
You're saving the entire cost of the physical SAN that would otherwise be needed (and really nets you nothing).
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Okay. Let's say our server is on VM and using Veeam B&R Replica for replicating the VM. Whether the other VM to which we are replicating is Live or Powered Off ?
What should we do at the time Main Server failure to utilize secondary server ?
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
1. Hyper V Replica : I know it's poor man's DC. So there should some limitations or hard work as it comes for free. For me, redundancy matters and ok with Veeam pricing.
Why, if hard work is okay, would you do this instead of real high availability with Starwind?
No idea about Starwind HA. I will chat with Sales guy soon to understand the things...
It's free. And provides for true HA. No data loss in a failover.
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
Okay. Let's say our server is on VM and using Veeam B&R Replica for replicating the VM. Whether the other VM to which we are replicating is Live or Powered Off ?
What should we do at the time Main Server failure to utilize secondary server ?
Replication always means "powered off." You need VMware's Fault Tolerance for a powered on system. Powered On only works when memory is kept in sync, which no one but VMware can do today.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
1. Hyper V Replica : I know it's poor man's DC. So there should some limitations or hard work as it comes for free. For me, redundancy matters and ok with Veeam pricing.
Why, if hard work is okay, would you do this instead of real high availability with Starwind?
No idea about Starwind HA. I will chat with Sales guy soon to understand the things...
It's free. And provides for true HA. No data loss in a failover.
Wow. Let me echo what I understand :
- We have two physical servers (Server A and Server B )
- Both servers (A and B ) running Hyper-V virtualization
- Server A is having main Windows Server VM and trying to replicate with Other VM on Server B
- So here I can use, Free VSAN from Starwind
Am I correct ?
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@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
Okay. Let's say our server is on VM and using Veeam B&R Replica for replicating the VM. Whether the other VM to which we are replicating is Live or Powered Off ?
What should we do at the time Main Server failure to utilize secondary server ?
Replication always means "powered off." You need VMware's Fault Tolerance for a powered on system. Powered On only works when memory is kept in sync, which no one but VMware can do today.
I see. So as we are going with Hyper-V, because it's free, the replicated VM will be Powered Off and we need to Power it ON at the time failure ? or this third party tools like Veeam B&R, Starwind VSAN will trigger automatically ?
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
1. Hyper V Replica : I know it's poor man's DC. So there should some limitations or hard work as it comes for free. For me, redundancy matters and ok with Veeam pricing.
Why, if hard work is okay, would you do this instead of real high availability with Starwind?
No idea about Starwind HA. I will chat with Sales guy soon to understand the things...
It's free. And provides for true HA. No data loss in a failover.
Wow. Let me echo what I understand :
- We have two physical servers (Server A and Server B )
- Both servers (A and B ) running Hyper-V virtualization
- Server A is having main Windows Server VM and trying to replicate with Other VM on Server B
- So here I can use, Free VSAN from Starwind
Am I correct ?
Kind of.... for the Free VSAN appliance you need external storage. The great thing about the Free VSAN appliance is you can get out of an IPOD design, the suck part two it is you'd need double the external storage to be truly safe.
You need the paid version of Starwinds VSAN for a 2 host configuration.
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Take a look here at Starwinds Free VSAN
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@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
Okay. Let's say our server is on VM and using Veeam B&R Replica for replicating the VM. Whether the other VM to which we are replicating is Live or Powered Off ?
What should we do at the time Main Server failure to utilize secondary server ?
Replication always means "powered off." You need VMware's Fault Tolerance for a powered on system. Powered On only works when memory is kept in sync, which no one but VMware can do today.
I see. So as we are going with Hyper-V, because it's free, the replicated VM will be Powered Off and we need to Power it ON at the time failure ? or this third party tools like Veeam B&R, Starwind VSAN will trigger automatically ?
Hyper-V will do the triggering, Starwind just makes the storage HA so that the Hyper-V trigger will work
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@scottalanmiller said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
@openit said in Hyper V replica VS Veeam B&R Replica.:
1. Hyper V Replica : I know it's poor man's DC. So there should some limitations or hard work as it comes for free. For me, redundancy matters and ok with Veeam pricing.
Why, if hard work is okay, would you do this instead of real high availability with Starwind?
No idea about Starwind HA. I will chat with Sales guy soon to understand the things...
It's free. And provides for true HA. No data loss in a failover.
Wow. Let me echo what I understand :
- We have two physical servers (Server A and Server B )
- Both servers (A and B ) running Hyper-V virtualization
- Server A is having main Windows Server VM and trying to replicate with Other VM on Server B
- So here I can use, Free VSAN from Starwind
Am I correct ?
Kind of.... for the Free VSAN appliance you need external storage. The great thing about the Free VSAN appliance is you can get out of an IPOD design, the suck part two it is you'd need double the external storage to be truly safe.
You need the paid version of Starwinds VSAN for a 2 host configuration.
No, no external storage needed. You are thinking of the product on the website, but we are meaning the one that they give away here.
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Ohhh! totally forgot about that.... you should find that link and remind us...
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@romo is going to be starting a Hyper-V and Starwind project really soon with loads of documentation here. But maybe not until this weekend. But look for that to be coming soon. That'll be the very latest Hyper-V 2016 and the latest Starwind VSAN.
