Hi All: We have a couple of non-virtualized servers (one SBS, one AD-integrated member server) that needed to be replicated to a remote location as part of a DR strategy. Last year our vendor set up a VMware-based solution with two VMs, but because the primary servers were not VMWare-based, needed additional software (DoubleTake) to handle replicating the primary (non-vitualized) servers to the VMs.
Jump forward to today, and we are needing to add another two servers to our domain (a terminal server and a web development server). I would like to virtualize the two servers, and they need to be added to the DR replication.
My question is, in taking a fresh look at our needs, would I be better "served" to use Hyper-V on this server, and eventually try to migrate the DR server VMWare to Hyper-V as well?
If I did migrate the DR server to Hyper-V, is there any way to replicate the existing standalone servers to the DR servers, as we're doing now with DoubleTake?
Or would I have to virtualize the existing servers to create 4 VMs, and then migrate the DR server to Hyper-V and configure replication for all 4 instances?