Solution White Paper
PLATESPIN® WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT
Consolidated Disaster
Recovery
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Consolidated Disaster Recovery
Table of Contents:
2 . . . . . Executive Summary
3 . . . . . Disaster Recovery
by the Numbers
4. . . . . . Traditional Disaster
Recovery Infrastructures
6 . . . . . Weighing the Options
7. . . . . . How Virtualization is
Redefining Disaster
Recovery and Availability
9. . . . . . Protecting Workloads with
Consolidated Recovery
12 . . . . . Planning and Implementing
a Virtualized Recovery
Solution
13 . . . . . Recovery Hardware
Appliances
14 . . . . . Summing Up
14 . . . . . PlateSpin Disaster Recovery
Products from Novell
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Traditional disaster recovery infrastructures
including tape backup, image capture, high-
end replication and hardware clustering have
failed to keep pace with business require-
ments for recovery speed and integrity at a
reasonable cost. Budgetary constraints and
the high cost and complexity of established
recovery solutions mean that most organiza-
tions can afford to protect only a fraction of
their total server infrastructure—typically only
their most business-critical server workloads.
This common protection scenario leaves the
majority of the server network under-insured
in the event of downtime or disaster.
While organizations can easily justify the
expense of protecting mission-critical server
workloads such as customer-facing applica-
tions (e.g., Web servers and online order
processing), it is harder to find sufficient funds
to protect business-critical and business-
important workloads such as e-mail servers,
internal Web servers or batch reporting
applications. Protection plans for these
types of workloads, which constitute the
majority of an organization’s infrastructure,
might be described as best effort.
There is a fine line between downtime being
merely a minor inconvenience to internal
users and resulting in lost opportunities.
When a system—any system—is down,
busines