In January I will be installing 3 proliants DL380G7 running ESXi 4.1 Essential Plus. We do not have a SAN. We would like to use data recovery to backup Host#1 onto Host#2 (which would run VDR and VCenter) and restore to Host#3 for DR purposes. Host#2 would also run our tape backup jobs.
Does this scenario sound plausible? Could select to backup directly from Host#1 to a datastore located on Host#3 using VDR?
Thanks