Data Center Optimization Disaster Recovery
Presentation Overview Introduction to PlateSpin PlateSpin Products and Solutions Overview The Current State of Disaster Recovery Planning Comparing DR Alternatives (Cost, RPO, RTO) The Benefits of Using VM s for Disaster Recovery P2V Recovery: Key Features and Benefits The Availability Lifecycle PowerSolution: Disaster Recovery Q & A
About PlateSpin Global independent software vendor, headquartered in Toronto, Canada Customers and resellers in Europe, Asia Pacific, North and South America 2,200+ satisfied customers, two lead products: PlateSpin PowerConvert PlateSpin PowerRecon Experts in solutions for virtualized data centers VMware Technology Alliance Partner Microsoft Certified Partner
PlateSpin Products PlateSpin sells two software products: PowerRecon and PowerConvert PowerRecon Data Collection and Analysis Consoldiation and DR Planning Foundation for ongoing optimization PowerConvert Implements Plans created in PowerRecon Live and concurrent X2X migrations Incremental synchronization for DR
PlateSpin PowerRecon - Awareness What resources are in the datacenter Data collection, analysis and planning for the IT Architect What workloads are running on those resources How effectively are workloads assigned to resources Create plans to optimize workload and resources Workloads Resources
PlateSpin PowerConvert - Migration Decouple workload from host Infrastructure Technology that automates the streaming of operating system, applications, data between infrastructures Live Peer-to-Peer Workload Movement Physical Blade Virtual Deploy or Recover Workload from Archives and Backups Reconfigure Workloads Dynamically Image OS + applications are decoupled from Hardware
PlateSpin Data Center Solutions Test Lab Automation Server Consolidation Data Center Optimization Over 2000 Unifying Customers Use PowerConvert Server Workload Management Hardware Migration Server Provisioning Disaster Recovery
PlateSpin Featured Solutions Continuous Server Consolidation P2V Recovery
Allocating DR Budget $ FT HA DR1 Over Insured BUDGET $ COST RPO/RTO DR2 DR3 Under Insured $ $
Measuring DR Effectiveness
PlateSpin Provides Affordable RTO and RPO Solution Server Clustering P2V Recovery Notes Duplicate Hardware Complicated Setup Shared Disk Consolidated recovery Power on recovery with easy testing RPO/RTO/Cost 0 / 0 / $$$$ Hours / min / $$ Disk Imaging Limited Restore Flexibility Slow Staged Restore 24h / hours / $$$ Tape / Manual Rebuild Difficult to Administer Slow, Prone to Errors 24h+ / days / $
The Benefits of Using VM s for Disaster Recovery Easily create warm standby servers Reduce RTO Speeds DR testing times Consolidated Recovery Environment Highly portable and encapsulated recovery environment Simplify off site transport Increase restore flexibility Maximize restore resources Manage recovery service levels Over commit resources for cost savings Perform resource intensive activities on recovery server
The Availability Lifecycle Restore Inventory Failover Plan Test Configure Replicate Backup
PowerSolution Disaster Recovery Inventory Plan INFO Configure INFO INFO INFO INFO INFO
PowerSolution Disaster Recovery Inventory Plan Configure
PowerSolution Disaster Recovery Inventory Plan Configure
PowerSolution Disaster Recovery Backup Replicate Test Failover Restore
PowerSolution Disaster Recovery Backup Replicate Test Failover Restore
PowerSolution Disaster Recovery Backup Replicate Test Failover Restore
PowerSolution Disaster Recovery Backup Replicate Test Failover Restore
Assessing Workloads for P2V Recovery Low I/O High I/O Stateless System Volume Data Volume System Volume Data Volume Statefull System Volume Data Volume System Volume Data Volume
PowerSolution: Disaster Recovery Reduce RTO by backing up to a bootable archive Maintain RPO with incremental synchronization Accelerate and simplify recovery testing Eliminate the need to manage many recovery servers Restore to dissimilar hardware if necessary Utilize excess resources that can be used for DR
PlateSpin Licensing Model PowerConvert can be licensed in two ways: Per Server Perpetual License Per Conversion License PowerRecon is licensed: Per Server Day E.G. 1 server for 100 days = 100 servers for 1 day
PowerSolutions - Review Continuous Server Consolidation P2V Recovery
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