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SAN to SAN Replication Question

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Currently I have Veeam successfully replicating across HP P2000 Storage Arrays using the SAN to SAN method. The P2000s themselves have a temporary replication license that is soon expiring (first did testing with SAN - SAN replication and SRM before trying Veeam). Does Veeam use this HP licensed feature to replicate? What I am asking is if replication will stop once these licenses expire or does Veeam not use the HP replication software and thus the pending expiry will be uneventful. Thanks
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Re: SAN to SAN Replication Question

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Hello Dave,

Veeam Backup and Replication is storage agnostic, meaning that we do not require any storage licenses to be used to run our jobs. Even if you SAN to SAN replication license expires, you'll be able to continue replicating VMs.

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Re: SAN to SAN Replication Question

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wow, that sounds great, I'm about to post similar but slightly different question but I chose not to anyway.

I'm now thinking to get different SAN hardware for my DR site, so i was just wondering how does it work to mimics EMC Clariion to Clariion replication between site 9it cost us fortune $$$) ?

my question is:
Do I just need one Veeam Backup and Replication 5 license in my Production VCenter server or do i need two to make the SAN replication happening ?
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Re: SAN to SAN Replication Question

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It works at the host level so the replicated data goes via the remote ESX host to get onto the datastore (rather than block level between SANs). Probably better for someone from Veeam to confirm but we checked with Veeam and have only licensed our production site (we only replicate one way and use push so there is no Veeam server in our remote site, we might switch this to pull though depending on how our testing goes as there's some advantages to having the Veeam server in the DR site rather than production site)
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Re: SAN to SAN Replication Question

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albertwt wrote:Do I just need one Veeam Backup and Replication 5 license in my Production VCenter server or do i need two to make the SAN replication happening ?
You need to license source hosts only. If you have any more questions regarding replication capabilities, please take a look at our F.A.Q. topic
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Re: SAN to SAN Replication Question

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wow, many thanks Vitaliy, Veeam is great products :-)
because with the EMC MirrorView SAN block level I'm worried that the VM is snapshotted as crash (not properly quiesced) so we needsomething that can properly quiesce the VM, can some one clarify this matter please ?
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Re: SAN to SAN Replication Question

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Hi, you may want to check out sticky FAQ topic for more information on this matter, particularly Application Aware Image Processing section. Thanks!
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