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V mware quick start guide to disaster recovery
1. Quick-Start Guide to Disaster Recovery
An IT disaster can significantly harm your business
Events beyond your control—and even planned events—can
drastically affect your business in the following ways:
• Loss of revenue from your customers’ inability to do business
with you
• Diminished market credibility, your customers’ trust—even a total
loss of business
• Penalties for violating service-level agreements (SLAs) with your
partners, suppliers, distributors and franchisees
• Costs to recover and repair the lost data
• Legal costs of meeting internal and external compliance
requirements
In fact, consider the following statistics:
• 43% of companies that experience disasters never re-open, and 29%
close within two years1
• 93% of businesses that lost their data center for 10 days went
bankrupt within one year2
• 40% of all companies that experience a major disaster will go out of
business if they cannot gain access to their data within 24 hours3
Are you prepared for a disaster? Is your enterprise able to meet
its recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives
(RTOs)?
Why deploy a virtualized disaster recovery (DR) plan?
Until reliable virtualization management solutions became available
several years ago, DR solutions fell well short of satisfying business
requirements:
• It was too expensive to deploy a second failover site with dedicated
resources
• Recovery plans were too complex
• DR procedures were too unreliable
In fact, virtualization is now a fundamental and critical aspect of a
successful DR plan. Virtualized environments are much easier to
recover, migrate and manage because they simplify the hardware and
software infrastructure and allow standardization of processes. And
with built-in intelligence, planning and automation of the recovery
procedures become much more reliable and repeatable.
Take the first steps
How do you start the journey to build an intelligent virtual
infrastructure as a reliable and cost-effective platform to protect your
IT assets? Here are six steps to get you started:
Identify your most critical applications and data.
What applications directly generate revenue, maintain
safety or are otherwise critical to business continuity?
What data is absolutely critical for your customers,
your internal accounting and finances, or compliance?
Virtualize your key applications.
This will not only reduce operational and maintenance
costs by removing unnecessary infrastructure and
software, but your environment will be simpler and
better suited for effective DR planning.
Agree on the target RTO and RPO.
What data can you lose? For how long? When do you
want to be back online with your critical applications?
Make sure your goals are realistic.
Define the triggers for DR to bring all the
planned activities to action.
This can be a business decision based on the data you
are getting, or a technical event that automatically
triggers a recovery.
Identify the DR replication, failover and failback
options you want to implement.
The resulting solution will be a compromise between
the level of protection, the speed of recovery and
the costs.
Select the solution vendor.
Beware of vendors pushing specific hardware or
operating system or other limiting choices that don’t
align well with your existing or planned environment.
Study the level of your team’s expertise required to
maintain the solution, or the amount of resources you
need to allocate. Make sure you can test the solution
without waiting for the actual disaster.
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[Source] McGladrey and Pullen
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[Source] National Archives Records Administration
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Gartner, March 2009
As with many enterprises today, your data center houses the critical IT components—hardware, data and
software—that your business depends on. But are they fully secure and protected from potential disasters?
Your data center’s health and fault tolerance rely on many factors unrelated to your IT environment, such as
natural disasters, devious intruders, security procedures or partner service interruptions.
While many organizations don’t plan to be victims of an IT disaster, their goal is to mitigate the risk if one does
occur.
![Quick-Start Guide to Disaster Recovery
An IT disaster can significantly harm your business
Events beyond your control—and even planned events—can
drastically affect your business in the following ways:
• Loss of revenue from your customers’ inability to do business
with you
• Diminished market credibility, your customers’ trust—even a total
loss of business
• Penalties for violating service-level agreements (SLAs) with your
partners, suppliers, distributors and franchisees
• Costs to recover and repair the lost data
• Legal costs of meeting internal and external compliance
requirements
In fact, consider the following statistics:
• 43% of companies that experience disasters never re-open, and 29%
close within two years1
• 93% of businesses that lost their data center for 10 days went
bankrupt within one year2
• 40% of all companies that experience a major disaster will go out of
business if they cannot gain access to their data within 24 hours3
Are you prepared for a disaster? Is your enterprise able to meet
its recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives
(RTOs)?
Why deploy a virtualized disaster recovery (DR) plan?
Until reliable virtualization management solutions became available
several years ago, DR solutions fell well short of satisfying business
requirements:
• It was too expensive to deploy a second failover site with dedicated
resources
• Recovery plans were too complex
• DR procedures were too unreliable
In fact, virtualization is now a fundamental and critical aspect of a
successful DR plan. Virtualized environments are much easier to
recover, migrate and manage because they simplify the hardware and
software infrastructure and allow standardization of processes. And
with built-in intelligence, planning and automation of the recovery
procedures become much more reliable and repeatable.
Take the first steps
How do you start the journey to build an intelligent virtual
infrastructure as a reliable and cost-effective platform to protect your
IT assets? Here are six steps to get you started:
Identify your most critical applications and data.
What applications directly generate revenue, maintain
safety or are otherwise critical to business continuity?
What data is absolutely critical for your customers,
your internal accounting and finances, or compliance?
Virtualize your key applications.
This will not only reduce operational and maintenance
costs by removing unnecessary infrastructure and
software, but your environment will be simpler and
better suited for effective DR planning.
Agree on the target RTO and RPO.
What data can you lose? For how long? When do you
want to be back online with your critical applications?
Make sure your goals are realistic.
Define the triggers for DR to bring all the
planned activities to action.
This can be a business decision based on the data you
are getting, or a technical event that automatically
triggers a recovery.
Identify the DR replication, failover and failback
options you want to implement.
The resulting solution will be a compromise between
the level of protection, the speed of recovery and
the costs.
Select the solution vendor.
Beware of vendors pushing specific hardware or
operating system or other limiting choices that don’t
align well with your existing or planned environment.
Study the level of your team’s expertise required to
maintain the solution, or the amount of resources you
need to allocate. Make sure you can test the solution
without waiting for the actual disaster.
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
[Source] McGladrey and Pullen
2
[Source] National Archives Records Administration
3
Gartner, March 2009
As with many enterprises today, your data center houses the critical IT components—hardware, data and
software—that your business depends on. But are they fully secure and protected from potential disasters?
Your data center’s health and fault tolerance rely on many factors unrelated to your IT environment, such as
natural disasters, devious intruders, security procedures or partner service interruptions.
While many organizations don’t plan to be victims of an IT disaster, their goal is to mitigate the risk if one does
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