Subscribe in a readerTurn Recovery Time Objectives into Recovery Assurances
Backup and Disaster Recovery Assurance is the ability to test and certify the protection of your key applications (e.g. Exchange, SQL, SAP, SharePoint, Oracle) from down time and disaster.
Traditionally DR testing was something that was done once, maybe four times a year. We found, especially in the virtual environment, this isn’t enough testing to guarantee the recoverability of applications. For example, between those tests, hundreds of changes would have taken place that would render the recovery of that service very difficult or impossible.
If a disaster strikes, do you have 100% confidence you can recovery your entire virtual environment, all of your applications, data and business services all within the SLA's (service level agreements) the business has established?
Most IT Managers are not confident, and end up assuming unacceptable risk, that most regulations prohibit.
Gartner Group says that "data recovery testing is one of the most challenging and resource intensive components of Disaster Recovery.
Typical DR testing costs in the region of at least £15,000 per test, resulting in companies cutting corners, and ending up not having the 'iron clad' assurance they require.
The Backup Assurance Solution
- Backup, DR test and assurance product for VMware platforms.
- Automates the replication and failover of your critical systems, so that all DR processes including testing, failover and fail back (recover).
- This solution delivers vastly more cost effective results, all within establish RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives & Recovery Time Objectives).
- The solution offers unmatched resilience for virtual infrastructures.
- Aligns Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans
- Provides proof that your systems are fully recoverable
- Track RTOs and RPOs in real-time
- Alert you to RPO and RTO deviation vs actuals
- Provide complete visibility and compliance reporting through web enabled dashboard
- Dramatically reduce the TIME, RESOURCES and EXPENSES required to assure business continuity – resulting in reducing unacceptable risk.
100% automated DR testing for continuous proof that your systems are fully recoverable within RPOs and RTOs
Customers cite “we can now test the recoverability of our critical systems…and detailed reporting provides us with all the information we need”. Technology Manager, Baron Funds.
How does DR assurance work?
Simplified, on the left side you have your primary / production environment, the virtual architecture, with your VMs running on top of a hypervisor. Beneath the hypervisor you would have some form of SAN storage.
The SAN data would be replicated across to your secondary or DR site.
From this secondary site you would have another group of VMs, where your applications are backed up in the event of a primary site failure.
The solution management controller is completely non-intrusive, working in conjunction with your existing architecture (from a virtual or physical server)
When the solution is install, there are only a few things you need to do;
1. tell it what virtual machines / services you want to backup from the primary site (for example, perhaps Microsoft SharePoint)
2. tell it what RPO and RTO you want to set for SharePoint
3. the management controller will then go into the storage of the secondary site and grab a snapshot of the SharePoint application and then mount it inside the sandbox in the DR site.
4. you can then run application level tests against the application (SharePoint)
5. If the recovery tests are successful, the solution creates a CRO (Certified Recovery Point) of the full tested snapshot that you can fail over to in case of disaster.
6. If your tests fail or take longer than your RPO or RTO times, then an alert is sent back to administrators or management, so that it can be addressed before it become critical to the business.
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