Disaster Recovery plans have always been hard to create and maintain in part because it is difficult to meet the service levels that those plans promise. With recent trends like GDPR and ransomware threats, it is even more difficult for DR plans to live up to expectations. Join Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump, and Commvault’s Director of Product Management, Deepak Verma and learn: 1. What new trends and threats promise to break your current DR process 2. How to simplify creation and maintenance of your DR plan 3. How to meet the service levels that your DR plan commits you to

1. How to Create a Disaster Recovery Plan that Actually Works
Attend and Learn:
1. New Trends & Threats that break DR Processes
2. Simplify Creation & Maintenance of DR Plan
3. Meet Service Levels your DR Plan Commits you to
For audio playback and Q&A go to: bit.ly/DRPlanWorks

2. OurSpeakers
Deepak Verma, Director
of Product Management
of Commvault
George Crump, Founder
and Lead Analyst of
Storage Switzerland

3. The Purpose of a Disaster Recovery Plan
● Disaster Recovery Plans are a
predetermined process that IT can follow
during a disaster
● Disasters are stressful situations
○ Having a preset plan increases chances of
success and decreases chances of
mistakes
○ Testing that plan further increases the
chances of mistakes
○ Plan should be able to be run by an
“outsider”

4. The State of Disaster
Recovery Plans
● Most DR Plans, if they exist, are
outdated
● DR plans haven’t caught up with
data center modernization
● Most DR strategies are now ad-hoc

5. New Threats are on the Horizon

6. New Threats
• Ransomware
• Hybrid IT
• Data Protection Sprawl
• Users Expectations

7. A Change is
Needed
● Simpler, More Nimble
Disaster Recovery Plans
● Leveraging the latest
protection capabilities

8. SIMPLIFYING DISASTER RECOVERY

9. Recovery Capabilities
Assessment
• IT only project
• Set a Reasonable Service Level
for each application/data set

10. Quick Review of Service
Levels Objectives (SLO)
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
• Geographic Recovery Objective (GRO)
• Version Retention Objective (VRO)
• Recovered Performance Expectation (RPE)

11. Recovery Potential Study
• Ways to leverage advances in
technology to improve SLOs
• Goal it to communicate cost
associated to reduction in SLO
timeframes
• Enables stakeholders to make
business decision on investment

12. Quick Review of Protection Advances
• Snapshot to Backup Software Integration
• Block Level Incremental Backups
• Recovery in Place (Live Recovery)
• Cloud Storage / Object Storage support
• Scale-Out Backup Software

13. Summary ● DR Planning needs to change to keep pace with
data center modernization
● Core IT needs to do a Recoverability Assessment
to communicate the real-world to the
organization
● Core IT needs to do a Recovery Potential Study to
communicate what’s possible to the rest of the
organization
● Then develop per application mini-plans, the
actual process of recovery based on those result

14. Challenges with traditional disaster recovery approaches
• Drives up costs (network, hardware,
software, etc.)
• Increases risks from new threats
• Does not achieve better RPO and RTO
for majority of data
• Requires multiple technologies
• Requires multiple orchestration steps at
various layers
• Does not focus on application SLA
Traditional DR approach treat all data the same

15. Disaster recovery for the modern datacenter
VM2VM1
Live Sync IO (<1 minute)
VM3
MA
MA
VM2VM1 VM3
Live Sync Direct (>15 min RPO)
Live Sync (>1 hour)
Deduplicated replication with manual recovery (>4 hours)
VADP
Disk Library
Public Cloud
Disk Library
LowerRPO/RTO.
Customers can use one platform for a flexible and cost effective DR solution

16. Centralized management and reporting for DR
• Setup disaster recovery + backup +
archive policies
• Manage data lifecycle across physical,
virtual, and cloud environments
• Multi-tenant self-service and/or admin
initiated protection
• Reports on RPO and RTO SLAs, job
status, and issues to meet compliances
needs
Simple dashboard to monitor & manage across multiple platforms

17. Multiplatform DR support to Cloud
Copy Pool1
Native REST integration
Copy Pool2
Data Policy
• No manual migration, conversion, creation
of cloud instances from your data
• Activate when needed only and scale up,
out, and down
• Deploying data usage faster
• Same toolset for diverse use cases on-
premises and the cloud
• One view of your data
• Policy based access to cloud resources

18. Confidence in the ability to recovery
• Filters by
• Clients Groups
• Clients
• Type
• RPO/RTO Assessment
• Actual RPO
• Method dependent
• Uses historic information
• Actual RTO
• Method dependent
• Uses historic information
• Details
• Actual breakdown of each process related to DR
• Backup Time, Copy Time, Resync Time,
Estimated Failover Time, more…
Recovery readiness report

19. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
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20. How to Create a Disaster Recovery Plan that Actually Works
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