Disaster Recovery – not a nightmare with virtualization

Written on Apr 03 2008 1,275 views, 1 comment

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Tony wrote Check out a NetApp

on Fri, Apr 4 2008 1:20 AM

Keep all your VM's on a NFS share on a NetApp filer, cut snapshots and replicate them to DR (obviously you need 2 NetApps, one in Prod, one in DR, but SATA works fine and costs less)

You can bring the process of bringing up the "new" datacenter from 24 hours to easily under 12 hours, maybe 8, dare I say 4??? To recover a small site (10 VM's or less) I've done it in under 1 hour

Throw a pair of Riverbeds in the mix and you can also reduce your replication time and improve your RTO (recovery time objective)

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