ESX Cluster Stretched over two DC’s…
July 2nd, 2009
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While doing some research found this article on the Pro’s and Con’s of stretched ESX cluster across two datacenters.
A stretched cluster is the practice of having ESX member servers in a cluster that are geographically separated. The reason this is generally done is to provide the ability to dynamically move workloads from one datacenter to another. Often, the customer is also considering it for disaster recovery purposes (“I’ll just VMotion in case of a disaster”). Can this be done – ABSOLUTELY – but not considered lightly.
More here: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2008/06/the-case-for-an.html