Originally Posted by slater
Server: Hardware - id shoot for 12 core system with a minimum of 32Gb of ram, multiple SAS drives in raid array.
Primary OS: VMware ESXi server for server virtualization
Virtual OS 1: Windows SBS 2011 premium as host OS for AC
Virtual OS 2: a cloned copy of the above to prevent downtime and to test updates before full deployment . . .


I like the idea of no downtime. I have a physical backup server for my SBS 2008, and just did a bare metal restore to see if it works. But that does not achieve prevention of downtime.

How do you keep the copies of AC or entire SBS synced? Once a day backup and restore? (Takes too long). Decompress AC backup only? (Still takes time).

Thanks.