Regardless of I/O, why would you want to have your backups, a critical piece of 
your disaster recovery solution, relying on a piece of infrastructure that may 
need the backups to recover?

Sean

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Subject: Re: [Networker] networker server virtualisation

In regard to: [Networker] networker server virtualisation, helenjay said...:

> Has anybody any experience in virtualising their networker server?  My
> boss is giving it serious thought, however i'm not quite convinced.  I
> know the idea is to share the resources but at the end of the day you're
> still sharing and the networker server is pretty demanding.  Anybody any
> thoughts/experience?

I would argue strenuously against virtualizing a backup server.

IF you can virtualize and still provide enough I/O bandwidth to perform
your backups and recoveries in a suitable window, I would be very
surprised.  Let's assume for a minute you can, though.

Even if your virtualized backup server has enough I/O, though, you're
still potentially making a true disaster recovery situation much more
complicated, if not potentially impossible.

Tim
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