We are wanting to implement VMWare, but do not have the budget/need for a large clustered environment. We only have a handful of physical servers (<8) that have low utilization. We would like some level of fault tolarance beyond just hardware. We currently have a primary site and backup site (currently stores backup tapes; no server equipment) that are linked together via fiber (about 2km in distance).
We feel that our first focus is having our data elsewhere; for primary datacenter/building failure. Second priority would be to include hardware redundancy (hopefully next budget year). We are looking at purchasing two servers with plenty of storage/spindles and RAM. Based on our needs, one server should provide plently of power. We are thinking the Site Recovery Manager might be the best way to replicate the virtual systems to provide the disaster recovery we desire. However, I cannot find an article or KB that addresses single node sites with SRM. Has anyone done this or is this possible?
JasonA