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VMware Disaster Recovery

Build a Rapid, Reliable & Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Solution

Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often costly and complex—and can’t meet yourrecovery objectives even after doubling hardware (and cost) for protected applications. Testingthem can be a nightmare because the steps are tedious and the documentation is hard to keep upto date. Likewise, keeping two sets of hardware in sync is nearly impossible. VMware vSpherelets you recover to any machine, not just specific duplicate hardware, reducing hardware costsand maintenance budget and lowering the complexity of maintaining a backup site. Even if youhaven’t virtualized all production servers, virtualize target servers for your data recovery toallow greater simplicity, reliability, and cost savings.

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

Recover Rapidly from Disasters

Traditional disaster recovery plans require many manual, complex steps to allocate recoveryresources, perform bare metal recovery, recover data and validate that systems are ready foruse. How optimized is your disaster recovery plan? Answer 40 simple questions about your backupand recovery, high availability and disaster recovery setup and plans and our DR Assessment willsuggest ways to improve backup, recovery and availability of your business critical applications.You’ll get a personalized assessment, peer-to-peer comparisons and an optimization roadmap.After getting your assessment, you can download our white paper on Building a ComprehensiveDisaster Recovery Plan.

Then see how VMware virtualization simplifies IT environments. —hHardware configuration,firmware, operating system install, application install— all become data stored in just a fewfiles on disk. Protect these files using your backup or replication software and you’veprotected the entire system. These files can then be recovered to any hardware withoutrequiring any changes because virtual machines are hardware-independent.

Ensure Reliable Recovery

Traditional recovery plans are often difficult to test, difficult to keep up to date, and dependon exact execution of complex, manual processes. In a virtualized environment, testing issimpler because you can execute non-disruptive tests using existing resources. Hardwareindependence eliminates the complexity of maintaining the recovery site by eliminating failuresdue to hardware differences.

Reduce the Cost of Disaster Recovery

Reliable disaster recovery solutions traditionally require duplicating your entire productioninfrastructure—and with it your costs. With VMware vSphere, you can provide rapid and reliablerecovery without requiring identical hardware. With hardware independence, you can repurposeexisting servers for disaster recovery rather than needing to buy duplicate servers for rapidrecovery. Server consolidation also lets you slash the cost of server infrastructure neededboth for production and disaster recovery.

Automate Disaster Recovery

Eliminate the need to perform numerous manual steps, difficult or impossible to automate andprone to human error. Virtualization opens the door to disaster recovery automation by turningphysical servers into data and recovery procedures into software. Automate your disasterrecovery process with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and ensure rapid and cost-effectiveexecution of disaster recovery plans. Easily test your disaster recovery plan to ensure thehighest levels of reliability and availability of your entire IT infrastructure.