1. Pilot Light DR for Amazon Web Services
™
Automated Disaster Recovery for Multi-Tier Production Apps
Data Sheet
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Pilot light disaster recovery is a perfect use case for the
cloud. With cloud-based DR, companies avoid costly
capital expenses and staffing costs are minimized as the
responsibility for maintaining a dedicated disaster
recovery site belongs to the cloud service provider.
Monthly payments are based on the services used,
making the ‘pay as you go’ model much easier to budget.
More applications can be protected as a result. Companies
also enjoy the ability to test more frequently and to scale
up and down as services demand. For all of these
reasons, CloudVelox offers Pilot Light DR for AWS –
automated cloud-based disaster recovery for multi-tier,
physical and virtual production apps.
Automated Cloud Synchronization
CloudVelox Pilot Light DR for AWS offers the fastest,
safest and most cost-effective way to automate disaster
recovery services leveraging public cloud services from
AWS. Pilot Light DR analyzes the application systems and
dependencies and blueprints the systems running the
application in the data center. It then provisions required
storage resources in AWS and synchronizes these
systems directly into the cloud storage resources, and
continually updates them with any changes made to the
systems running the application. This includes the full
application stack and data, operating system files,
configuration, kernel and patches and updates, and
closed-box file servers, as well.
The solution ensures that all of the information necessary
to launch up-to-date copies of the application in the cloud
are kept ready without the expense of maintaining running
cloud virtual machines for each system required by the
application.
Pilot Light DR ensures that in the event of a disaster (or
planned failover), the application systems in the cloud are
up-to-date and ready for failover.
One-Click Failover
In the event of a disaster or planned failover, all it takes to
bring up the failover environment for an application is a
“Pilot Light DR for AWS saved us 90%
vs. the cost of a traditional DR site
while also shrinking our recovery
time objective by almost 90%.”
• No capital investment
• No long term commitment
• No risky capacity planning
• Scale up and down to meet growth
• ‘Pay as you go’ usage-based cost
• Geographic locality control
• More apps can be protected
Pilot Light DR Benefits
Instant
Tests
Failover Resume
Normal
Ability to Scale
TIME
COST
Fixed
Cost
2nd
Data
Center
AWS
Cost
Cost
Savings
with
AWS
Demand
Fig. 1. Pilot Light Architecture. “Ignite” instances as
needed. Keep ‘pilot light’ on by continuously replicating
and synchronizing app workload (group of machines,
OS, libraries, binaries, configs, services, app stack and
app data)

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mouse click. When failover is initiated, CloudVelox Pilot
Light DR ‘ignites’ the AWS virtual machine images for each
system required by the application. In just minutes
complete applications are up and running in the cloud. To
minimize cost, CloudVelox ensures that all of the
up-to-date virtual images in the cloud are kept ready
without any burden to the IT staff. For the majority of time
spent between system outages or planned failovers, cloud
service expenses are kept to a minimum. Most cloud
service expenses for running systems only occur during
the actual disaster event or planned failover. (See figure 1.)
Disaster Testing
Disaster recovery sites benefit from thorough testing and
monitoring. Pilot Light DR for AWS enables companies to
easily test failovers for various purposes, such as system
verification, compliance, staff training, and to perform
maintenance on primary systems. The CloudVelox
Administrator console provides a single-pane view of all
the replicated systems running in the data center and the
AWS cloud environment. Application services can be
started or stopped in just a matter of minutes, with no
specialized skills required. IT staff will enjoy the ease at
which applications can be tested for failover without the
need for lengthy disaster recovery instruction plans.
They can realize fully operational systems in the cloud
in minutes.
CloudVelox Pilot Light DR for AWS delivers automated
cloud-based disaster recovery for multi-tier, physical and
virtual production apps; the platform removes the
One Hybrid Cloud™
Software
One Hybrid Cloud™
Software
Customer Site Public Clouds
Discovery
Blueprinting Synchronization
Provisioning Service Initiation
1
2
3 5
4
LDAPAD
Most cloud service expenses for
running systems only occur during
the actual disaster event or
planned failover.
Fig. 2. CloudVelox Pilot Light DR for AWS is a robust hybrid cloud disaster recovery
solution, based on the AWS Public Cloud infrastructure. The result is increased
disaster resilience and agility at an unprecedented low cost as compared to a
traditional dedicated discovery recovery site.

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complexity of performing an application failover or a
complete disaster recovery, resulting in more reliable DR,
reduced demand on IT staff and reduced cost.
Pilot Light DR: Impact on RTO and RPO
Pilot Light DR can address most enterprise apps needing
comprehensive back-up, quick recovery and redundancy.
Unlike active/active operating models required for very
aggressive RTOs and RPOs, a pilot light model consists of
a continuously updated environment (storage, application,
database and management layers) cloned into AWS
storage which can be "ignited" into production instances
during an event or test. Depending upon bandwidth and
the frequency of updates, RTOs and RPOs can be much
more aggressive than traditional backup solutions.
About CloudVelox
CloudVelox is leading the development of hybrid cloud
automation software based on its unified One Hybrid
Cloud™ (OHC) Platform Architecture. The revolutionary
OHC software delivers unprecedented agility and choice
when it comes to the migration and operation of multi-tier
applications in the cloud for use cases including
development/test and disaster recovery. CloudVelox is
headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.
Active-Active
Pilot
Light
Load balance and
DR Always On
“Ignite” instances
when needed

4. Automated discovery, blueprinting, provisioning, synchronization, service initiation,
and cloud integration.
Provides fast one-click failover of data center applications and systems for testing
and services-augmented failback for outages.
Remote images are kept up-to-date with changes to systems in the data center.
Databases and NFS Servers are automatically synchronized into the cloud, with
automatic encryption of all data volumes.
Data is continually synchronized using asynchronous replication to generate
application consistent system snapshots in the cloud.
Establishes a secure network connection (using encryption) for provisioning and
synchronization. Host firewall settings are customizable and automatically created
and applied for each of the cloud systems.
External cloud environments can be integrated with Active Directory or LDAP
platforms for authentication service integration.
Windows: Windows Server 2008 (32bit and 64bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit)
Windows Server 2003 (32bit and 64bit)
Windows Server 2003 R2 (32bit and 64bit)
Linux: RHEL 5.x, 6.x - both 32 bit and 64 bit
CentOS 5.x, 6.x - both 32 bit and 64 bit
Ubuntu 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x - both 32 bit and 64 bit
Amazon Linux (2013.03) - both 32 bit and 64 bit
MySQL, Oracle, postgres, and nosql databases are supported. OHC also ships with
backup/restore mechanisms for MySQL. On Windows, Microsoft SQL Server.
Bandwidth requirements can vary based on the size of an application and the size and
frequency of updates. Users can throttle bandwidth usage, based on operating
requirements.
Key System Functions
Key system
functions
DR failover and testing
Data
synchronization
Frequency of data
synchronization
Extension of data
center services to
the Cloud
Operating systems
supported
Databases
supported
Bandwidth
requirements
Secure Connection
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