How Important is DR Planning?
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Disaster Recovery (DR) is a crucial part of IT architecture but it is often misunderstood, clumsily deployed, and then neglected. It is often unclear whether the implemented DR tools and plan will actually meet SLAs when needed. Unfortunately it often isn’t until a disaster has occurred that an organization realizes that their DR strategy has failed them. Even when organizations are able to successfully muddle through a disaster event, they often discover they never planned for failback to their primary datacenter environment.
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Proper planning can ensure success and eliminate uncertainty, beginning before implementation and then enabling continued testing and validation of the DR strategy, all the way through disaster events. Planning DR involves much more than just identifying workloads to protect and defining backup schedules. A good DR strategy include tasks such as capacity planning, identifying workload dependencies, defining workload protection methodology and prioritization, defining recovery runbooks, planning user connectivity, defining testing methodologies and testing schedules, and defining a failback plan.
At Scale Computing, we take DR seriously and build in DR capabilities such as backup, replication, failover, and failback to our HC3 hyperconverged infrastructure. In addition to providing the tools you need in our solution, we also offer our DR Planning Service to help you be completely successful in planning, implementing, and maintaining your DR strategy.
Our DR Planning Service, performed by our expert ScaleCare support engineers, provides a complete disaster recovery run-book as an end-to-end DR plan for your business needs. Whether you have already decided to implement DR to your own DR site or utilize our ScareCare Remote Recovery Service in our hosted datacenter, our engineers can help you with all aspects of the DR strategy.
The service also includes the following components:
- Setup and configuration of clusters for replication
- Completion of Disaster Recovery Run-Book (disaster recovery plan)
- Best-practice review
- Failover and failback demonstration
- Assistance in facilitating a DR test
