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PlateSpin ProtectVirtualize your Disaster Recovery


What You Will Learn

The Challenges of Protecting your Servers

How to Complete your DR architecture

Leverage new technologies to solve old problems

How PlateSpin Protect complements existing DR infrastructure

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Disaster Recovery


The Need for Protection

*April 3, 2008 – Building The Business Case for Disaster Recovery Spending – Forrester**June 5, 2008 – The Forrester Wave: Disaster Recovery Services Providers, Q2 2008 - Forrester

of enterprises have declared a disaster or experienced a major business disruption*76%

87%of enterprises have indicated that improving disaster recovery capabilities was critical**

Power Failure 42% - Natural Disaster 33% - IT Hardware Failure 31%

Cost of Downtime 56% - Improving Mission Critical Availability 52% - Requirement to Stay Online 24/7 48% - Increased Risk 44%


The Challenge


Measuring Recovery Time in Hours

Business Downtime

46% of enterprises expect to recover a mission-critical application in 10 hours or less

65% of enterprises expect to recover a business-critical application in 10 hours or less

Data Loss

65% of enterprises limit mission-critical data loss to 10 hours or less

51% of enterprises limit business-critical data loss to 10 hours or less

April 3, 2008 – Building The Business Case for Disaster Recovery Spending – Forrester


As a CIO, You Need DR To:

Deliver ROI on Physical, Virtual and Storage infrastructure investments

Maximize flexibility and agility

Scale from dozens to hundreds of servers or more

Deliver the correct protection for all your server tiers

Be pragmatic


The PlateSpin Solution


The PlateSpin solutionProduction Site DR Site

Wide Area Network


PlateSpin Protect


Consolidate Recovery

Many to One Recovery

Environment

Whole WorkloadProtection

Lower Infrastructure

Costs

Internal Web Server

Email Server

PlateSpin Forge(Remote Site)

File based replication

Block Based replication


Simplify Testing

Rapidly Test Recovery

Workloads

Isolated Testing of Recovery

Workloads

Internal Web Server

Email Server

PlateSpin Protect(Remote Site)


Rapid Failover and Flexible Failback

Recovery Workload Runs on Virtual

Resource

Failback to Dissimilar Hardware

Failback with Sync To Repaired

Hardware

Internal Web Server

Repaired Email Server


New Web Server


Integrate with Storage

Near real time data RPO

Virtualize low change application

Best of Breed

Application Server

SAN mounted data


OS/Application Replication

Data Replication


Customer Profile

• Large Enterprise to Very Large Enterprise• Multiple Datacenter Sites (Offsite DR facility)• Have virtualization infrastructure deployed, with

remaining Physical server infrastructure• Have examined DR architecture and identified

multiple protection tiersExample

Tier 1: RTO – near 0, RPO – near 0

Tier 2: RTO – 2-5 days, RPO – 24 hours

Tier 3: RTO – 30 days, RPO – best attempt


Customer Pains

• Current RTO for tier 2 and tier 3 is not achievable for the physical systems using current solutions

• Individual hosts can be recovered within the timeframes, but scaling is an issue.

• The customer believes their current solution would require several administrator headcount to recover the systems, and test effectively


The PlateSpin solution

• Using block based replication (with VSS), replicate physical systems to ESX servers running at the secondary site

• Nightly backups staggered throughout replication window• Multiple PlateSpin Protect servers running at DR site (up

to 20 physical servers per PlateSpin Protect server)• Flexible image option for tier 3 systems (cheaper DR

implementation)


What PlateSpin is the Best Solution

• Recovery time is fast. Customer RTO SLAs are now achievable

• The personnel required for the recovery is far less than before. (Ex. Recovery of DBs protected with VSS do not require DBA support)

• Multiple options (i.e. protecting as VMs or images) to complete DR architecture

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