I’ll try this as well. I’ll list some hardware, requirements, and see what you guys come up with.
Requirements
Multiple site for DR
Predictable pricing. (Can’t have azure tell us we have a $40k bill one month for unpredicted restores)
Quick restores
Environment
2 Datacenters, 10 Gb link between, soon to be a second.
1Gb up from Main site, soon to be 5Gb/10Gb
1Gb up from DR site, won’t be upgraded in the next while.
Virtual environment
Multisite VMware environment
SRM with storage replication (not unwilling to switch to Veeam for some)
20+ hosts
Veeam Infrastructure
Enterprise license
2 SANS - block fiber storage
2 LTO8 Tape libraries (1 per site)
2 proxies that are also acting as repos to the SAN’s and Tape proxies. (256GB Memory, 40 Core)
2 proxies that will be added in about 6 months to 1 year (same as above)
Veeam Enterprise Manager
Challenge
Storage is about to be replaced. Choose your own Storage options for a mix of performance vs capacity A single backup of online production data is 600TB
Data needs to be archived to cloud or tape with the ability to restore individual files. The ability to keep it in an organized file structure ongoing has to be possible. estimated 1PB of archive data needs to go somewhere with minimal access, but also unpredictable usage.
Storage needs to be immutable at least 1 copy. Hybrid/flash for a second option for performance based tasks (backup verification, Veeam labs)
Production storage is all flash arrays with backup from storage snapshot. all fiber is 32GB
