Hi, I also dearly needed a DR feature or at least a reasonable way to hack around it, but in this case using an actual cloud framework (Cloudstack or anything else) seemed to make life significantly more difficult.
I am building a virt setup right now for a customer which needs DR server(s) off-site and I ended up with vanilla KVM hypervisors and nightly "rsync --in-place" of qcow2 files. It's a shame as the customer otherwise would have loved some of ACS features, stuff that we must now do manually. I do not blame ACS or anything, it's the customers' who should make their apps more cloud friendly and take advantage of zones and such. :) Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adrian Lewis" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, 14 January, 2015 17:35:55 > Subject: Anyone using CS to offer DRaaS? > Hi All, > > > > Just wondering if anyone out there is using CS to provide customers with DR > services and how? Most of the commercial products out there that might > allow us to do so involve either some sort of SAN replication or else > direct access to the hypervisor hosts. Vision Solutions have an old product > called DoubleTake Cloud Protection and Recovery but it seems that they > stopped development of it and hence don’t support working with any version > of CS greater than 3.0. > > > > Is anyone aware of a solution that does near-realtime replication of non CS > VMs or physical hosts into a CS environment? Even just a one-time migration > tool might be a good start. In our use-case, were hoping to > replicate/migrate Windows machines in customer networks (behind firewalls) > onto our CS environment (running Xenserver). Not keen on building from > scratch and would prefer some sort of commercially supported solution if > possible. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Adrian
