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Rethinking business continuance
Driving data availability up and costs down
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Introduction
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The need for an integrated HA and DR strategy
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Storage support for DR
8Costly and risky DR with traditional SANs8Time- and space-efficient remote replication for disaster recovery9Remote replication solutions 9Failover and failback9HP Data Protector 9Reduced risk with automated failover and failback10Failover/Failback wizard 10 VMware Site Recovery Manager10Disaster recovery strategies for distributed organizations 11
Conclusion
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Introduction
 Virtually every business organization understandsthat successful operations depend on the continuousavailability of its applications Most companies relyon internal applications—ranging from enterpriseresource planning to payroll systems—to keep thewheels of their enterprise turning They also dependon external-facing applications for everything fromselling products to their customers to automating thesupply chain with suppliers and partners The failureof any of these business-critical applications could becatastrophic to a companyThe causes of downtime are numerous Top-of-mindcauses include fire and natural disasters such asfloods, tornadoes, and hurricanes More unexpectedare causes such as power system and cooling failuresBut even more unexpected are the failures that don’tcount as true disasters: A fire in another part of thebuilding can cause smoke and water damage in thebest-protected data center Human error can rangefrom the wrong circuit breaker being thrown to anaccidental discharge of fire-suppression material When a failure occurs, its scope can range from asystem to a rack, from a room to a floor, and froma building to an entire site A comprehensive business continuity solution includesnot only the capacity to recover operations after amajor disaster, but also the capacity to remain onlineduring minor disruptions Server virtualization softwarehas brought great relief to IT organizations searchingfor high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)solutions with a low cost of entry Regrettably, thesame organizations that choose server virtualizationas part of their HA and DR strategy often overlookthe requirement for a shared storage solution thatadequately supports the HA and DR features theirserver virtualization solution offersFortunately, HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions providecost-effective support for server virtualization as wellas integrated, no-cost HA and DR storage solutionsthat are arguably superior to those available at extracost from other SAN vendors HP P4000 SANs doublecapacity utilization and provide applications with newlevels of availability* In small sites and at remote orbranch offices, HP LeftHand SAN technology enableshigh availability and lowers cost 49% by turninginternal server drives into shared storage**
* Based on a comparison between the HP P4000 and best practiceimplementations of EMC CLARiiON and NetApp FAS analyzing theimpact of recommended hardware configurations in a multi-site highavailability configuration.**Based on US list price comparison on July 1st, 2009, between a4TB dual-controller Dell EqualLogic PS6000 and HP P4000 VSASoftware plus 24 250GB HDDs used to create the virtual iSCSI SANin a VMware deployment.
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