This document discusses the need for disaster recovery plans and how virtualization can help update those plans. It notes that downtime from disasters costs businesses billions each year. Virtualization allows businesses to consolidate their recovery solutions by replicating workloads into offline virtual machines that can be failed over with one click for fast recovery. The document promotes PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge products which allow backups to virtual machines and virtual disaster recovery hardware. It provides examples of how these products provided cost savings and recovery benefits to customers.
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Update Your Disaster Recovery Plans with Virtualization
1. Update Your Disaster Recovery Plans with Virtualization Jason Dea Product Marketing Manager August 2011
2. Agenda The need for disaster recovery (DR) The challenge of managing today’s data center Virtualization and disaster recovery PlateSpin® Protect and PlateSpinForge®
4. Why Downtime Matters $41.3 Billion Total economic damage from disaster in 2009* $10.8 Billion Economic impact felt in the U.S. from disasters in 2009* *September 2, 2010 , Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are top IT Priorities for 2010 and 2011 - Forrester
5. Becoming a Priority Better able to identify and quantify risk Better understanding of economic impact Less tolerance for downtime and data loss 78% of enterprises have indicated that improving disaster recovery capabilities is a high priority* Critical Priority 30% - High Priority 48% *Jan. 25, 2010 – The State of Enterprise IT: 2009 to 2010 - Forrester
20. Best of Both with Virtualization Backup to virtual machine Offline image Same workflow Improved performance One-click RTO Incremental snapshots
21. Best of Both with Virtualization Virtual backup hardware Eliminate rebuild process Duplicate hardware virtually Low cost Virtual infrastructure Easy management
23. Consolidated Recovery Solution Replicate workload into an offline virtual machine One-click failover One-click test restore Flexible failback Virtual production servers Physical production servers Virtual recovery hosts Physical production servers
25. PlateSpin® Protect Whole-workload protection for all server workloads. Physical servers Virtual hosts Image archives Blade servers Workload decoupled from hardware Backup to virtual machines Incremental replication One-click failover Easy to test
26. PlateSpin Forge® World’s first disaster recovery hardware appliance with virtualization Protects up to 25 workloads PlateSpin Forge includes: • Storage • Replication software • Hypervisor Plug-in and protect solution for : • Medium enterprises • Branch use for large enterprises
31. Back to Business As Usual Failback with sync to repaired hardware Failback to dissimilar hardware Recovery workload runs on virtual infrastructure Virtual recovery (remote site) Internal web server Repaired Email server New web server
32. Trust Your Plans Rapidly test recovery workloads Testing logged for reporting and compliance Isolated testing of recovery workloads Virtual recovery (remote site) Internal web server Email server
33. Have Full Control Demonstrate policy compliance Actionable alerts Failure notification Virtual recovery (remote site) ! Internal web server Smart phone Email server
34. Protect All Your Workloads Windows or Linux Physical or Virtual Universal Solution Virtual recovery (remote site) .NetApplication server Block-based replication LAMP server Block-based replication
36. Customer Successes Nichols College “Disaster recovery solutions can be very complex ... PlateSpin Forge is very straightforward. There’s just one piece of hardware to manage. It’s low maintenance, and has low overhead. Without it, we certainly would have spent more money on another disaster recovery solution that would have required more resources to support it.” http://www.novell.com/success/nichols_college.html Reed Smith LLP "With PlateSpin Protect, we can recover multiple sites with the same set of hardware quite easily, in a matter of minutes." http://www.novell.com/success/reed_smith.html