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Disaster recovery failover and high availability for virtual servers

• Back up vRealize Automation with these best practices in mind

  Improve the integrity of vRealize Automation backups by minimizing active transactions, backing up appliances and databases simultaneously and testing restoration processes. Continue Reading

• Back up IaaS components for vRealize Automation

  During a vRealize Automation backup, you can use snapshots for IaaS components, but you have to create additional notes and copy configuration files to ensure a complete backup. Continue Reading

• Strategies for protecting the vRealize Automation appliance

  To adequately protect the vRealize Automation appliance, you should employ a variety of strategies and tools, including clones, configuration file copies and vSphere Replication. Continue Reading

• Use vRealize Automation backup and restoration capabilities

  There are many components involved when backing up and restoring vRealize Automation. Choose your method based on business goals and the degree of protection desired. Continue Reading

• What are the most common mistakes made when creating a VMware DR plan?

  DR planning mistakes are easy to make. Avoid selecting a tool that doesn't meet your needs or that's overly complex, carefully consider the replication site and test frequently. Continue Reading

• Which third-party products can you use for VMware disaster recovery?

  Native VMware disaster recovery might not make sense for every company. Which third-party products can help fill feature gaps?Continue Reading

• Create a high-availability strategy to prevent system failure

  High availability is an incredibly valuable concept, one that helps safeguard systems and components against failure. Improve your high-availability strategy with these tips.Continue Reading

• Proactive measures help to ensure business continuity

  An organization needs to devise a strategy that keeps its virtual machines available to the extent possible and recoverable when disaster strikes. This strategic planning should include disaster avoidance -- not simply disaster recovery. This ...Continue Reading

• How does a Hyper-V Replica failover work?

  Microsoft offers both planned and unplanned Hyper-V Replica failover options. While the use cases seem clear, admins should know the functional differences.Continue Reading

• Why N+1 is the wrong approach to data center resiliency

  A simple N+1 approach to data center resiliency may not be the best choice for maintaining availability and reducing hardware waste.Continue Reading

• What does N+1 redundancy mean?

  In data centers, N+1 redundancy is used to express the idea that a system should be designed to withstand the loss of a component.Continue Reading

• Plan for hardware failure, because you can't avoid it

  With the popularity of software features that help improve application availability, IT pros often forget that they can't prevent every hardware failure, which causes them to forget to plan the recovery.Continue Reading

• Bandwidth needs may put a stretched cluster out of reach

  A stretched cluster can provide true failover and VM mobility, but its networking and storage requirements make it an expensive approach.Continue Reading

• Quick links to help you solve clustering problems

  Have you ever wondered what the ideal number of virtual clusters is for your environment? Find out the magic number and more with these links.Continue Reading

• Reframing the server uptime debate

  Looking at uptime from a business perspective is the only way to determine how many 'nines' are enough.Continue Reading