Hi all, not sure if I'm posting this in the right spot or not...but here goes.
I have VDP deployed, and it works great. However, my concerns are also for DR, not just backups of data. So, I was wondering if the following would be a supported/best practice/good/bad idea, and wanted to see what the community thought.
Background: We have Essentials Plus, and also Site Recovery Manager licensed at both our main office, and in a remote colo'd datacenter. A vCenter lives in both places, unlinked. At the main office, all block and file is on an EMC VNX SAN. We use VMware replication for our VMs/block side, and use the VNX's replication on the file side for our CIFS shares. A VNXe sits at the remote site.
So my question is, what about setting up VSphere Replication/SRM to replicate the VDP appliance out to our warm standby DR site? (this is colo'd in another state). VDP works great, and I love that it de-dupes. I feel confident about it recovering my files/data/VMs/etc. However, it doesn't protect my stuff against a disaster, such as a hurricane or my building burning down. Our SRM deployment works great as well for replicating machines out of here and standing them up in the remote datacenter with a push of a button. So could this conceivably apply to my VDP appliance? I could schedule replication to occur during the Blackout period once a day, and then theoretically, I would have all my backups there to restore from if the Main Office goes bye-bye. Right?
This may have all been asked/answered before, but I was just wondering if this is a sound design or even close to a best practice. Thanks for any input/advice in advance.
Side note: Not sure if it would provide any extra benefit on this matter, but I am looking at VDP Advanced, though budgeting is an issue, (which is also why we didn't just buy a pair of Avamars to do all this for us and be done.)