My company has been using the free ESXi and we are ready to move to a paid version. I'm a little confused on the options, and how to best structure the solution. I'm hoping you can help.
We have a main datacenter here, and another office down the street with a smaller datacenter. Most of our VMs are used for development purposes, but we have a few production servers well.
My thinking is that we could have two servers, one at each location, giving us the ability to move VMs between them as needed for load balancing, maintenance, etc. My questions are:
- Is this a good approach?
- What products do I need to buy for this? I spoke with a sales rep but was just as confused after the call.
- Would we be able to use vMotion to seamlessly transfer machines from one site to another, or would the latency be too high, since they are geographically separate sites?
- What sort of server hardware should I have? Disk space that can handle all of the servers (in case I need to move all of the VMs to one machine)? Does the storage need to be on a SAN or NAS?
- Any other considerations?
Thanks,
-Scott