Re: Looking for replication technique for cluster VM's to offsite

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"Graham Prentice" <gprentice_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all, we have a 3 node cluster running Win2003R2 64bit on each node and
Virtual Server 2005R2.
Everything is running great but we'd like to replicate to an offsite
location for emergency useage. (we have about 10 VMs)

One idea was to sync the directorys with the VMs to another offsite
Win2003 server with VS2005.
When it was time to use the offsite environment, just add the VMs in
VS2005 and go. (this manual process is acceptable to us)

However, being a cluster, we'd need cluster aware replication software, or
use a scheduled script to shutdown the VMs, then sync the VM dirs, then
fire back up the VMs.

Any thoughts on this?

Graham



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