Nemertes Solution Briefing Card: Disaster Recovery with Virtual Machines

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Solution Risk: 4 – High Risk
This solution is suitable for Aggressive IT organizations

Description: Implement disaster recovery at the storage level by re-instantiating virtual servers at a remote data center after a disaster

Risk Components: Complexity, dependence on SAN/NAS replication

Next Inflection: Medium Risk/early adopter in 24-36 months

Expected ROI: 12 months

Pitfalls: SAN/NAS replication is complex. Not enough physical servers in recovery site to maintain adequate performance. Demand/replication spike during disaster

Vendors: Microsoft, SWSoft, VMWare, Virtual Iron, XenSource

New Skills: SAN or NAS replication; continuous data protection; managing virtual machines and physical machines in a mixed environment

Related Technologies: SAN, NAS, blade servers, provisioning software, patch management, global server load balancing; WAN routing and optimization

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