I tend to agree with all those that say it is difficult to keep your production system in step with your physical infrastructure at DR. You also have the whole pain of doing stand-alone restores to get started.
My cut would be to have a simple VM hypervisor (that has simple restore facilities) and ran the production VM as a guest mapping the physical addresses to those expected. Sure, running as a guest, the VM system will not be as efficient and guests of the VM system may even run like dogs if they are not tuned. However, this is a DR system and the objective is to get a service up and running quickly. In a real DR scenario you can always tune the system and migrate to native LPAR over the first few days but, while you are doing that, you have a service up and running. Colin Allinson Technical Manager - VM Systems Support Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
