Disaster Recovery Planning and Best Practices for 2010

Brace Rennels, CBCP and Nicholas Schoonver Senior Solutions Architect December 17th, 2009 http://twitter.com/doubletakeusa Search #DBTKWebinar
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Agenda
Pieces of the business continuity puzzle the top 10 best practices How to cost-effectively develop the right DR Plan for 2010 Real Life Customer Stories, and Tips and Techniques Technical deep dive: Protecting SharePoint and SQL server Using Hyper-V to enhance business continuity planning
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BCP Best Practices

Getting Started Why You Need a Plan Defining the Right Plan Top Mistakes Made Real Life Lessons Understanding your Business Cost of downtime Get the data out of the building Think beyond tape Enhancing BCP exercise with Virtualization
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Getting Started
Identify
Understand your business critical systems that need protection.

Plan
You dont necessarily have to have a business continuity plan to protect your data. Plan accordingly to allow the time needed to protect your data.

Practice
Once implemented, test once a quarter or every 3-6 months. Dont wait for the disaster, prepare for it.

Why You Need a Plan

40% of all SMBs will go out of business, if they cannot get to their data in the first 24 hours after a crisis. -Gartner

43% of companies never resume business following a major fire. Another 35% are out of business within 3 years. -- U.S. National Fire Protection Agency

"Small companies often spend more time planning their company picnics than for an event that could put them out of business." -- Katherine Heaviside, Epoch 5

Defining the Right Plan for Your Company

Project Plan for Data Protection

Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity

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Top Mistakes Made

Lack of planning, resources and time Lack of knowledge or expertise Setting unrealistic deadlines Lack of practice or exercise

Real Life Lessons

Understand what keeps your business going Calculate the cost of downtime Get the data out of the building Think beyond tape to achieve your recovery objectives Practice: Make sure you really can restore in different situations Think about people, policies and priorities

Understand What Keeps Your Business Going

E-mail: Your e-mail is your business

It is your customers best way to connect with you. To most workers, email is more important than their telephone. In todays world, email has legal weight and is often regulated for availability or protection.

Database: Your database is your business

It isnt just software, it is the basis for your most critical applications. It supports your billing system, your contact-management, your customer service, and even your Website. It holds the data that you depend on.

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Get the Data Out of the Building

Tape and beyond Data replication technologies enhance tape backup Real time replication Asynchronous vs. synchronous Host based vs. hardware based Remote access

Practice, Practice, Practice

Make sure you really can restore in different situations Power/hardware failures Weather related disasters Environmental related disasters Mistakes and errors are good!

BCP Summary
Be Cost-Effective
DR solutions exist for all organizations, large & small

Be Smart
Get the data out of the building!

Be Resourceful
Use a DR solution that protects a wide range of applications

Be Consistent
HA & DR should be part of the same solution to ensure business continuity

Be Proactive
Dont wait for the disaster, prepare for it.

Double-Take Solutions
High Availability, Remote Availability/DR, X2X Migration, Centralized Backup, Flex Computing
Lowest TCO, Bandwidth Friendly, Real-Time Transaction Awareness Protects ANY Applications
SQL Server, SharePoint, Oracle, Exchange, Notes, etc.

Requirements
Supported Operating System (Windows, Linux, Hyper-V, VMWare, etc.) TCP/IP
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Recovery Options
Application-Level Failover Failover applications like Exchange, SQL and File Servers using the Application Manager capabilities works with clusters Full-Server Failover Failover the entire system, from simple file servers to custom application servers or domain controllers Replicate and failover OS, applications and data On-Demand Recovery with Double-Take Backup Protect and recover servers with real-time images easily to different hardware or directly to VMs

Basic Double-Take Configuration

How Double-Take Replication Works

Applications Any IP Network Operating System

Double-Take Filter

Applications

Operating System

File System

Hardware Layer

WAN Optimized Three Levels of Data Compression and Scheduled Bandwidth Limiting Capabilities

File System

Hardware Layer

Initial Mirror of Data

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Microsoft Cluster Technology

Only one node can own the disk at any time

At failover, disk ownership is transferred

Cluster nodes share a disk

How GeoCluster Works

Only the active node accesses its disks

At failover, the new active node resumes with current, replicated data

Data is replicated to all passive nodes

Replication Replication

GeoCluster nodes use separate disks, kept synchronized by real-time replication

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Disaster Recovery and High Availability

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Many-to-One Failover

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Host-Level Protection for Hyper-V

VHD

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Hyper-V Host

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Hyper-V Host

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