Warning...this is one of those projects that was entered into where at the beginning we decided to virtualize everything slowly as we went, and as you can see, we are still not finished. And the company is pushing everyone to not spend if we do not have to spend.
Right now I have 3 ESXi hosts (2 at our main site and 1 at a remote site, all local storage with 10K SAS and OBR10). All are getting backed up with Veeam. Here's the current layout:
Remote Site
- Veeam backups of ESXi box to onsite Drobo 5N (30-45 day retention)
- File servers backed up with Crashplan Pro for offsite file backup
- No good offsite backup of Veeam backups
- Time Warner 10/10 fiber for internet
Main Site
- Veeam backups of ESXi hosts to Drobo B800i (30 day retention), copied to removable HD and taken offsite (2 week rotation of offsite drives)
- There are also 3 physical servers that...