ID:

BC36 (VMworld 2007)

Session:

Consolidated Recovery - Using Virtualization as a Recovery Platform for Production Workloads

Presenter:

PlateSpin

Organizations typically spend 80% of their disaster recovery budget to protect only their most mission-critical servers and as little as 20% of their infrastructure. This session will discuss how virtualization provides an innovative way to reduce the upfront investment required to implement a disaster recovery solution. Using virtualization to create a consolidated recovery environment eliminates the need for costly duplicate hardware and software for one-to-one redundancy. A virtual recovery environment accelerates recovery and testing times, and reduces dependency on tape by enabling disk-based backups. Consolidated recovery allows organizations to affordably protect a broader spectrum of workloads running on both physical and virtual resources. Attendees will learn how an awareness of data center assets, workload lifecycles and resource utilization metrics can help them make better decisions about how to protect workloads in the data center and dramatically improve an organization's recovery processes.