Hi all new to the site just purchased 2 Dell PowerEdge R720 servers with internal storage of (6)500GB Drives configured at RAID5(no SAN) and 128GB of RAM. We are planning on running Windows Server 2012 with Role of AD and then an additional Windows 2012 Server with Role of Terminal Server to use for publishing RemoteApps to our end users and file storage. The end users will be using Microsoft Office apps solely and housing their documents on the server.
1. Am I better off installing ESXI on an SD card and leaving the entire internal storage for my VM's?
2. As far as replication of my VM's for DR is the vsphere replication appliance suffice or should I be looking at a different product?
3. Any other advice that can be given would greatly be appreciated.
Thank you all and have a great day...