Top 10 things you must read about Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity and VMware By Eric Siebert published: Wednesday, June 25 2008
Disaster recovery can often be painful and difficult to setup but is usually a necessity in large corporate environments. Implementing a proper DR strategy can always be challenging but fortunately virtual servers can simplify your DR implementation. Often some companies use a few virtual servers as a lower cost alternative to many physical servers at their DR sites. There are many different methods and approaches to implementing DR in virtual environments and based on your requirements you may use either one or a combination of these methods. There are also many vendors that offer products to help you replicate data between your main and DR sites. This top 10 list covers the many types of implementation stategies that can be used with DR as well as some of the 3rd party products that can help you with this. It mostly consists of VMworld presentations where an entire track is devoted to disaster recovery and business continuity.
Tips and Tricks - Disaster Recovery in a Box
http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/mylearn?classID=11316
A VMworld 2007 presentation on the technical details of implementing a cost effective DR solution and packaged solutions.
VMware Infrastructure 3 Capabilities for Improving Disaster Recovery
http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/mylearn?classID=13713
A VMworld 2006 presentation on why using virtual machines is a great option for disaster recovery.
New Trends in Disaster Recovery for VMware
http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/mylearn?classID=11120
A VMworld 2007 presentation on current DR options and using Site Recovery Manager to automate DR workflows.
VMware ESX Server and Storage Architecture Best Practices for Performance, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/adc9591.pdf
A VMworld 2006 presentation on how to architect storage for use in a VMware DR environment.
Disaster Recovery Virtualization
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/DR_VMware_DoubleTake.pdf
A white paper from VMware and DoubleTake on using virtual machines and data replication for disaster recovery.
Leveraging VMware ESX Server in Disaster Recovery Solutions
http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/mylearn?classID=13701
A VMworld 2006 presentation with case studies on using VMware ESX as a DR solution.
Disaster Recovery Solution Architecture for VMware
http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/mylearn?classID=11018
A VMworld 2007 presentation describing how to use Site Recovery Manager as an effective DR solution.
Innovative Approaches for High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Your VMware Infrastructure Environment
http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/mylearn?classID=13722
A VMworld 2006 presentation by Symantec on DR challenges and solutions and using Veritas Cluster Server as a DR option.
VMware ESX Server as a Foundation for High Availability and Disaster Recovery for the Microsoft Server Platform
http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/mylearn?classID=12936
A VMworld 2006 presentation by EMC on using HA layers, DR layers and Contimuation of Operations.
VMware users explore disaster recover options
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid94_gci1253386,00.html
An article on different DR options used by various companies with their VMware infrastructure.
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Complete 'Top 10' Collection , VMware , DoubleTake , Veritas Cluster Server , Top 10 things you must read about VMware Networking, Top 10 Things you must read about Performance , VMworld 2007
Eric Siebert is a 25-year IT veteran with experience in programming, networking, telecom and systems administration. He is a guru-status moderator on the VMware community VMTN forum and maintains VMware-land.com, a VI3 information site.
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