Great topic. Much appreciated Matthew and Scott. AVS as a DR is an extremely effective solution. To mitigate the costs of running "Hot" DR, some companies run "secondary" workloads in AVS and shut them down in the DR event to free up capacity for Tier-1 Apps if needed. It would be a great development if AVS would allow "Hosts on Demand" approach, similar to what was available in AWS (VCDR: VMware Cloud DR), where your VMs are replicated to AWS, and ESXi hosts provisioned only when needed. RTO will be longer, but it is an automated process and much less expensive. Thank you!
Great topic. Much appreciated Matthew and Scott. AVS as a DR is an extremely effective solution. To mitigate the costs of running "Hot" DR, some companies run "secondary" workloads in AVS and shut them down in the DR event to free up capacity for Tier-1 Apps if needed. It would be a great development if AVS would allow "Hosts on Demand" approach, similar to what was available in AWS (VCDR: VMware Cloud DR), where your VMs are replicated to AWS, and ESXi hosts provisioned only when needed. RTO will be longer, but it is an automated process and much less expensive. Thank you!
Really good feedback, I know MSFT has been looking at supporting something like VCDR (now VMware Live Cyber Recovery.)