VMware Disaster Recovery

Traditional disaster recovery plans require many manual, complex steps to allocate recovery resources, perform bare metal recovery, perform data recovery, and validate that systems are ready for use. 
Forget worrying about whether you have the correct hardware configuration, patches, and firmware and eliminate the difficulties of recovering your operating system and application installation on different hardware.

Even if you are still waiting to virtualise your production servers, virtualised target servers for your disaster recovery gives you simplicity, reliability and cost savings.

• Recover from disasters rapidly
• Ensure reliable disaster recovery
• Reduce the cost of disaster recovery
• Automate disaster recovery

Ensure Reliable Recovery

Having a recovery plan is an important step, but just as important is ensuring that the plan is reliable.  Traditional recovery plans are often unreliable because they are difficult to test, difficult to keep up to date, and depend on correct execution of complex, manual recovery processes.

Testing becomes simpler in a virtualised environment because virtualisation makes it possible to execute non-disruptive tests using existing resources. Hardware independence eliminates the complexity of maintaining the recovery site by eliminating failures due to hardware differences that can otherwise creep in over time and cause costly and time-consuming complications during recovery.

Reduce the Cost of Disaster Recovery

With traditional disaster recovery solutions, having the fastest and most reliable recovery requires duplicating your entire production infrastructure and with it your costs.  Using Vmware infrastructure you can provide rapid and reliable recovery without requiring identical hardware.  Because of hardware independence, you can repurpose existing servers for disaster recovery rather than needing to buy duplicate servers for rapid recovery. VMware virtualisation also enables server consolidation so that organisations can slash the cost of server infrastructure needed both for production and disaster recovery.

Automate Disaster Recovery

Traditional disaster recovery solutions entail numerous steps that are difficult or impossible to automate. As a result, traditional disaster recovery solutions are generally slow, complex and prone to human error. Virtualisation opens the door to disaster recovery automation by turning physical servers into data and recovery procedures into software.

Next Steps

> Download the VMware Business Continuity White Paper
> Contact Q Associates about VMware Disaster Recovery
> Request a quote

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