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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

• 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

• VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

  VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a disaster recovery management product from VMware that provides automated failover and disaster recovery testing.Continue Reading

• Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager

  Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager is a cloud-based service that automates the backup and recovery of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).Continue Reading

• Capacity planning strategies for successful failover clusters

  Larger failover clusters improve resource utilization, but could also leave you vulnerable if you don't design around your biggest VMs.Continue Reading

• How vSphere Metro Storage Cluster differs from Site Recovery Manager

  Both vSphere Metro Storage Cluster and VMware Site Recovery Manager will help your organization limit downtime, but they work in very different ways.Continue Reading

• Power management a must for oVirt high availability

  Dodge dreaded downtime by enabling power management in your oVirt 3.1 environment.Continue Reading

• Hyper-V Replica improves fault tolerance without a failover cluster

  Are you looking for a cheaper alternative to a failover cluster? Windows Server 2012 includes a new feature, Hyper-V Replica, that can be an effective substitute.Continue Reading

• Virtual disaster recovery strategies in action

  This expert handbook explores how server virtualization can increase flexibility, while ensuring that recovery time objectives are met and hardware requirements stay minimal. Compare how physical and virtual DR differ and learn about the benefits ...Continue Reading

• High-availability architecture: Redundancy vs. abstraction

  If you're getting more involved with virtualization, you may want to take another look at your high-availability architecture. Redundancy and abstraction can help prevent problems.Continue Reading

• Using redundant network architecture and storage pools for HA

  Building a redundant network architecture and placing all your VMs on a storage pool is an efficient way to achieve high availability in your virtual data center.Continue Reading

• Data center planning considerations for high availability

  Sure, virtualization brings flexibility, but high-availability data center planning is still crucial. Take full advantage of the benefits of data center high availability.Continue Reading

• Virtual disaster recovery strategies in action

  Virtualization is changing the disaster recovery landscape. This e-book is a beginner's guide to virtualization with chapters on disaster recovery (DR), test and development, server consolidation, high availability, storage, security and key ...Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery strategies for Hyper-V

  If you don't know about Hyper-V's disaster recovery technologies, you should. An expert explains how to develop a Hyper-V business continuity strategy.Continue Reading

• Virtual infrastructure management - Step-by-step virtualization

  Tackle the complex challenges of virtual infrastructure management with Alessandro Perilli, including mandatory control of physical and virtual resources availability, usage and access; deployment of disaster recovery solutions; provisioning of new ...Continue Reading