Site Recovery
Disaster recovery is at the core of IT service continuity. Traditional disaster recovery plans depend on a very complex infrastructure and set of processes: duplicate datacenters, duplicate server infrastructure, processes for getting data to a recovery site, processes for restarting servers, processes for reinstalling operating systems, and so on. Because disaster recovery can be complex, organizations often find themselves unable to provide good protection to more than a privileged few of their production workloads, leaving other workloads (e.g. file/print servers, internal web servers, and departmental applications) unprotected or poorly protected.
By leveraging VMware Site Recovery Manager, there is a major impact on an organization's ability to deliver IT Service Continuity:
- Recovery is significantly faster - Recover in minutes or hours, rather than the days or weeks it would take in a physical environment.
- Recovery is simple - Unlike physical environments where it takes significant IT time and resources to monitor and maintain recovery plans, Site Recovery Manager centralizes management of your recovery plans and integrates with the management of your virtual infrastructure.
- Recovery is far more reliable - By making it possible to test recovery plans frequently and easily, and by eliminating error-prone manual recovery steps, organizations can rely on their recovery plan when they need it.
- Recovery is affordable - By cutting down on the total cost for servers and infrastructure needed for recovery, making recovery hardware-independent, and simplifying the recovery process, recovery becomes affordable for any organization.
