I will have a 64-bit 2008 R2 SQL Server Standard edition acting as the production (primary) database server in a vSphere environment.
I was planning on creating a secondary server that mirrors the Operating system environment and SQL server configuration, which is where the primary databases transactional logs will be shipped and applied.
Since this is a virtualized environment the plan was to keep the secondary server to a bare minimum in terms of CPUs/RAM, but I am wondering what the bare minimum recommendation here would be.
I am also wondering how what the most effective licensing model would be for the secondary server, since technically it is only a standby server, it wont have any active user connections other than whats necessary for shipping and applying the transactional logs.
Any info/experience would be much appreciated!