Hi,

I was thinking of installing Backup Exec 15 on the host OS of a Hyper-V 2012 R2 server, in order to be able connect a library to system, disk-to-disk backups with follow-up tape backups.

The only other solution, would be to get a new server and run the library off the new server, and install Backup Exec on the new server.

I realize that Backup Exec can be intensive, but am trying to consolidate so not having to order another server.  The server will be used as a replica server, so possibly it could host running active VM guest systems, if necessary.

Any thoughts?  Would this be un-realistic in regards to performance, especially if the replica VM's would need to become the active VM's.  The replica guest VM's would be a Domain Controller, file server, print server, and possibly a SQL server with a couple of databases of 15GB and 30GB.

Unless there is a failure of the primary server this server would mainly run as a replica, with possibly a single active VM.

Than