I am tasked with developing a DR plan for our office.
- Public Accounting office - single site with 55 employees and nine partners
- 2 ESX hosts running 9 vm's
- Equal Logic PS6100 SAN with about 3.5TB data
- Currently running ESX Essentials but plan on moving up to Essentials Plus now that we have recently installed a SAN.
- Planning to provide about 50 to 75% of our employee’s remote access until suitable temporary office space can be found.
I am looking one of the firms partners homes locating a Dell T610 server with enough recourses to run our environment. This would have to include a UPS and dedicated internet connection with static IP address. I am also looking at co-locating this server at another site but the closest co-location center is about an hour drive and seems to be very expensive.
What would the best choice in this situation, SRM or vSphere Replication. I understand that replication is included with Essentials Plus, (when we upgrade) but there seems to be some really nice features with SRM.
Suggestions? Feedback?