Veeam: Replication Design Question

[Netanel]

Hi,

I'm planning to deploy Veeam B&R v7 in order to replicate 25 VMs (Maximum - 50 VMs in the future) between production site to DR site by using 20/20MBps (not Mbps) dedicated line.
I read the Deployment & Best Practices guide, but just to make sure that my deployment is fine with some expert who perform implementations in this field.

Production Site
3 x VMware vSphere 5.5 ESXi hosts in a cluster managed by vCenter (IBM xSystem hardware)
25 VMs that I need to replicate to the DR site (2 VMs need to be replicated every 15 mins, the rest every 1 Hour)
EMC iSCSI SAN with 1TB VMFS data stores for VMware

DR Site
1 x Physical host with 96GB RAM (enough for the 25 VMs - total required RAM is 32GB, IBM xSystem hardware as well)
IBM iSCSI SAN N-Series with 1TB VMFS data stores for VMware

I thought to install VMware ESXi at the DR site and connect it to VMFS data store (to contain the replicas), at the DR site I'll install the Veeam B&R 7 on a VM and poll the VMs from the Production site.

Is a single Veeam machine is enough for that configuration? or you recommend on other configuration?

The goal of this deployment is to perform failover & failback at the replication level, no backup level right now.

Thanks.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Netanel,

Your configuration looks good to me. Installing Veeam B&R server on the remote site will allow you to run failover/failback process when your main sites goes down. Also since you have a SAN storage on the production site, I would recommend using either virtual or physical proxy server (located on the main site) in direct SAN processing mode, this will give you best job performance possible.

Thank you!

[Netanel]

Thank you!
There's any template(s) of Veeam for partners/IT Pros regarding project plan?

[Vitaliy S.]

Do you mean the DR runbook?