HP Disaster Recovery Solutions with VMware vSphere 4 Rethink your approach to disaster recovery Solution brief
Minimize risk as you keep your mind that comes from knowing your business will keep business running running in the event of a disaster. This comprehensive solution has three main components: Enterprises such as yours depend on rapidly evolving • HP StorageWorks SAN solutions with data technology to keep business operations connected, replication software drive revenue, and support customer demands. Yet • VMware vSphere from HP many organizations’ business continuity and disaster recovery plans are outdated and rigid. As your • VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager from HP organization deals with constant changes—such HP StorageWorks SAN solutions as operational growth, expansion from mergers or HP offers a range of efficient HP StorageWorks acquisitions, new business processes, and shifting SAN storage solutions that properly support the personnel—your IT infrastructure might not be in a advanced requirements of virtualized environments. position to recover from a disaster. If that’s the case, The comprehensive suite of replication software the entire enterprise may be at risk—and it’s probably from HP lets you protect your valuable data by time to focus on this issue. replicating between HP StorageWorks SAN systems. The trouble is that traditional disaster recovery It also provides ease of management, and efficient solutions are often costly and complex. Even if storage and network resource utilization. HP array- you double your server and storage (and cost) for based replication software is fully integrated and protected applications, the expansion still might not certified with VMware through HP Storage Replication meet your recovery objectives. If your storage capacity Adapters (SRAs) for VMware vCenter Site Recovery at the recovery site isn’t efficiently utilized, your costs Manager. may be impacted even more. Plus, when you test your VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter Site recovery plans, the steps are often tedious and the Recovery Manager from HP documentation hard to maintain—and keeping two With VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter Site sets of hardware in sync is nearly impossible. Recovery Manager, you are able to build, manage, HP and VMware® virtualization solutions can help. You and execute reliable disaster recovery plans. As an can achieve rapid, reliable, and automated disaster optionally integrated element of VMware vSphere, recovery between your primary production and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager helps you to: secondary recovery sites by deploying HP Disaster • Accelerate recovery for the virtual environment Recovery Solutions with VMware vSphere™ 4. These through automation solutions leverage HP StorageWorks SAN solutions • Promote reliable recovery by enabling non-disruptive and advanced replication technologies, integrated testing seamlessly with VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery • Simplify recovery by eliminating complex manual Manager. recovery steps and centralizing management of A flexible, comprehensive approach recovery plans to disaster recovery Finally, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager integrates with HP StorageWorks array-based When you deploy HP Disaster Recovery Solutions replication software to simplify and remove the risk with VMware vSphere, you gain a flexible approach and worry from disaster recovery. to disaster recovery that delivers increased server utilization, simplified management, and the peace of HP Disaster Recovery Solutions with The HP Disaster Recovery Solution for enterprises VMware vSphere meet a variety of includes: business needs • VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager for fast, reliable, and automated disaster recovery Regardless of the size or breadth of your organization, capabilities HP Disaster Recovery Solutions with VMware vSphere • VMware vSphere data center virtualization platform deliver complete protection of the systems, data, and applications that run your business. • HP StorageWorks EVA 6400/EVA 8400 with built-in virtualization to support the most critical enterprise Enterprises applications Large, geographically dispersed firms can • HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA/SVSP build disaster recovery solutions based on the Software to replicate data over distance, along powerfully simple HP Enterprise Virtual Array with HP Storage Replication Adapters for VMware (EVA). The EVA allows you to virtualize everything vCenter Site Recovery Manager for no stranded capacity or performance—while seamlessly provisioning your storage as you grow • HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystem servers your application environment. HP StorageWorks • HP ProCurve or 3Com IP network switches Command View software offers ease of management, • HP reference architectures, best practices, and which means less time spent on maintenance technical white papers and administrative intervention. By adding the Midsize businesses HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform HP Disaster Recovery Solutions with VMware vSphere (SVSP)—a network-based virtualization application— for midsize businesses are based on HP StorageWorks you can improve asset utilization by 300%, simplify P4000 G2 SAN solutions, which are optimized operations, and lower your total cost of ownership for database and email applications as well as for (TCO) by enabling the pooling and sharing of your virtualized servers. With a pay-as-you-grow, all- choice of storage resources. inclusive pricing model (including three years of
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2 support) and intuitive storage management, this SAN Remote and branch offices is perfect for the budget-minded. The P4000 G2 SAN Cost-effective disaster recovery can be implemented is built on a storage clustering architecture that scales in remote locations or branch offices by using the capacity and performance in a linear fashion without HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance incurring downtime or performance bottlenecks—or software (VSA) and VMware vSphere. The VSA forcing expensive upgrades. And reservation-less combines the benefits of a physical SAN with the thin provisioning substantially increases your storage ability to transform server disk drives or attached utilization. external storage and create a virtual iSCSI SAN. As a result, you can eliminate the costs and complexity The HP Disaster Recovery Solution for midsize of purchasing a new SAN system. The VSA includes businesses includes: Remote Copy software for asynchronous data • VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager for replication to a VSA or P4000 SAN at other sites. fast, reliable, and automated disaster recovery The VSA installs easily on any VMware host server, capabilities including more than 100 HP ProLiant rack and • VMware vSphere data center virtualization platform HP BladeSystem servers. It is certified with VMware • HP P4000 G2 SAN solution for cost-effective, vCenter Site Recovery Manager to simplify and scalable, highly available SAN storage automate recovery processes. • HP Remote Copy software (included with P4000 The HP Disaster Recovery Solution for remote/branch G2 SAN) for capacity- and network-efficient offices includes: asynchronous data replication, along with • HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance HP Storage Replication Adapters for VMware software vCenter Site Recovery Manager • VMware Essentials Plus • HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystem servers • VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager • HP ProCurve or 3Com IP network switches • HP ProLiant or HP BladeSystem servers • HP reference architectures, best practices, and • HP ProCurve or 3Com IP network switches technical white papers
3 Why HP Disaster Recovery solutions? Tested, proven solutions from HP has the experience in disaster recovery solutions VMware and VMware environments to provide a solution that As a VMware Global Technology Alliance Partner, meets your particular business needs. Key advantages HP works closely with VMware engineering teams of the HP Disaster Recovery solutions with VMware to certify, integrate, and validate HP StorageWorks include: devices with VMware technologies. HP engineering • Reduced costs by automating and simplifying teams produce a wealth of VMware-specific best disaster recovery—With the combination of practices guides, reference architectures, technical HP remote replication technologies, VMware white papers, and solution blocks to reduce risk and vSphere, and vCenter Site Recovery Manager, lessen the time and effort needed to deploy solutions you can more easily manage and implement your that combine HP and VMware products. These recovery plan. documents cover not only storage, but also the server, • Increased agility with a flexible virtualized networking, and application aspects of the solution. infrastructure that adapts to changing business needs—HP storage, compute, and network To learn more virtualization solutions, combined with VMware Together, HP and VMware have tested, validated, and vSphere, enable you to optimize every data center documented our joint solutions. For more information resource and respond to business requests faster about HP Disaster Recovery Solutions with VMware or and more effectively. other joint HP and VMware solutions, please contact • Decreased deployment time and risk with your HP sales representative or channel partner, or predictable results—HP reference architectures, visit: www.hp.com/go/vmware best practices, and technical white papers provide a foundation that enable you to quickly and accurately deploy a disaster recovery solution.
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