VIRTUALIZATION HAS BEEN WIDELY USED
to speed application deployment, improve IT utilization rates, and reduce costs. Today’s “doing more with less” virtualized data centers require a closer management eye since problems on dense consolidated infrastructure impact more people – employees, partners and customers – than in more distributed, less utilized, and less stressed systems.
Just like their non-virtualized counterparts, virtualized infrastructures require a plan for when a business disruption or disaster strikes. Also like their non-virtualized counterparts, local redundancy while enhanced due to virtualization-enabled high availability and pooling of resources, only goes so far. It can never be a substitute for a second geographically segregated disaster recovery site.
While the same disaster recovery tenets apply, the relative newness and consolidated nature of virtualized machines make individual components more critical and thus mandate a more deliberate and comprehensive approach using unique technology components to ensure a successful outcome.
Download and read this executive level overview of Virtual Disaster Recovery (VDR) benefits and planning considerations.