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VMware Disaster Recovery

Build a Rapid, Reliable & Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Solution

Forget about traditional disaster recovery solutions. They're costly and complex, and often can't meet your recovery objectives even after doubling your hardware (and cost) for protected applications. Imagine being able to recover to any machine, not just specific duplicate hardware. Hardware-independence in your data center with VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, where any physical server can be the recovery target for your virtual servers, makes fast recovery the norm. Reduce your hardware costs and your matinenance budget. Even if you haven't virtualized your production servers, virtualized target servers for your disaster recovery give you greater simplicity, reliability, and cost savings.

• Recover from disasters rapidly
• Reduce the cost of disaster recovery
• Simplify your disaster recovery process

Recover Rapidly from Disasters

In a virtual environment, bare-metal and operating system recovery is much simpler than traditional recovery processes. Forget worrying about matching specific hardware, patches, and firmware. A single-step file recovery procedure takes advantage of virtual machines' file encapsulation, which reduces a server to a set of files which can be restored to any hardware. You can replicate entire virtual machines to a recovery site with third-party replication software and reduce your recovery time to just a few hours.

Reduce the Cost of Disaster Recovery

Instead of purchasing duplicate hardware, get more from your current hardware inventory as you repurpose existing, often underutilized, servers as recovery targets. Recover your applications and data onto other virtual machines instead of specific dedicated physical servers. Save and restore entire environments and eliminate bare metal restore processes and rebuilds from your disaster recovery plans. Simplified recovery procedures makes testing a breeze and eliminates the need for costly training and documentation.

Simplify Disaster Recovery Processes

Having primary and recovery hardware is risky and time consuming. Either you spend countless hours ensuring exactly duplication of hardware or differences creep in over time, causing costly and time-consuming complications during recovery. Simplify recovery procedures and meet your time-to-recovery targets with a virtualized environment. Testing becomes simpler in a virtualized environment as well.