On 12-07-21 02:42 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> For most people, a VM is going to make for a much less reliable 
> solution. They will be way too tempted to put the VM on the same 
> storage as their production hardware.
>
> For someone who understands the dangers, and has a disaster recovery 
> replication set up for their VM's already, backup PC either isn't the 
> right solution for them, or they already have the skills necessary to 
> make such a solution work.
>
> Why things are different for you in this case, which might have led to 
> the exhaustion of the list, I'm not sure. But personally, while it 
> might be a good way to evaluate the software, a VM of backup PC as a 
> supported solution does not seem like a good idea to me.

Don't forget you're also protecting against human errors. It only takes 
a small click of the mouse to destroy an iSCSI target by accident and 
every replica of it.

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