Thoughts on Veeam BDR

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Hi Everyone,

I was hoping to get some thoughts on putting together a built "BDR" of sorts for Veeam while maintaining dedupe options for backup data and avoiding the costs of having to buy failover hosts and dedupe storage (Exagrid, Data Domain, Etc)

here is a scenario at one of my smaller clients that this could work for

2 Dell R630 hosts
1 EqualLogic array
15 or so VM's

I was looking at backup storage and want to try the following

1) Purchase new R630 with a large amount of local storage and decent amount of memory configure with ESXi (not added to my vCenter)
2) create a server 2012 R2 VM utilizing 50% of the storage
3) Move my veeam backup VM to this host
4) run local backups to that 2012 R2 VM enabling dedupe in 2012 R2 VM

If I am ever in a situation where my production cluster is down I can restore from the backup residing on that guest 2012 VM straight to the host that the 2012 VM is already on.

Effectively making a BDR a-la Datto, Axcient, Zenith, etc.

Also they are already using cloud connect for off-sites so we are covered there, this is strictly an on site thing

Are there any flaws in my logic that I am not thinking about.

[foggy]

This thread should give you some thoughts.