Hi All,
I wanted to ask the experts here some advise about architecting an SRM environment for my company. We wish to run 2 seperate ESX 4.1 clusters (one in each of our 2 datacenters). Each cluster will consist of 2 hosts and be utilised in an Active/Active configuration so that critical VMs will be mirored to each datacenter.
The specific questions I were the following:
1, Each datacenter will have its own vCenter VM and SRM VM. Is it ok to run both of these as VMs and are there any disadvantages to doing this?
2, Is it advisable to have a seperate SQL server running on each cluster to house the SRM database or can we put both DBs on just one?
3, We have an SQL cluster at a remote site that has a redundant 45mb WAN connection to our site. Is there any disadvantage with hosting the SQL databases there rather than locally (we would obviously save on licences if we can do this so this would be a preferred option).
Please let me know your thoughts. Any advice will be much appreciated.
Thanks