I have a small network with two identically speced Dell R720XD ESXi 5.5 hosts. Host A is processing all 12 production VMs on its local storage and is located in Building A.
Host B is my DR host and is located in Building B. This host will only have one VM running Veeam Backup and Replication.
Host A and B are connected via 1Gb ethernet link.
It was suggested that I have a Veeam Proxy running on a dedicated VM on Host A where all of the production VMs are at. The recommendation is that this VM is given "4x4" cpu setup (4 sockets and 4 cores).
Is this really necessary? I'd rather not dedicate a Windows server license just for a proxy agent, but if it will drastically speed up jobs, then I suppose I can.