I'm finally ready to engage in a long-overdue task getting our APC/PCNS house in-order. This is a sprawling environment and it's not quite something I've setup with PCNS before. What's more, we have a lot of flexibility to come up with other hardware if we need to.
Hence, my question to everyone here.
Here's the environment:
2 sites:
Site 1: 2 ESXi 5.5 setup with failover/vMotion
Site 2: 1 ESXi 5.5 setup
Sites are connected via IPSec VPN. Tunnel is "always" up.
vCenter is running _as a VM_ on one of the ESXi hosts in Site 1. vCenter manages both sites.
SAN:
Dell/Equalogic. Holds the VMs at Site 1. The Site 2 storage is local.
QNAP (4x):
SAN for security camera DVR hardware. Attached to ESXi via iSCSI. DVRs are VMs at Site 1 and write data to the QNAP.
AppAssure BDR:
Dell box running AppAssure software. AppAssure backs up all VMs via Agents...