how to start your disaster recovery in this “cloudy” landscape EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing 2011 Roy Mikes Storage and Virtualization Architect Mondriaan Zorggroep
[email protected] Table of Contents About This Document 3 Who Should Read This Document? 3 Introduction 4 1. What is a Disaster 6 2. What is a Disaster Recovery Plan (DR plan) 7 2.1. Other benefits of a Disaster Recovery Plan 7 3. Business Impact Analysis (BIA) 8 3.1. Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) 9 3.2. Recovery Time Objective (RTO) 9 3.3. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) 9 4. Data Classification 10 5. Risk Assessment 13 5.1. Component Failure Impact Analysis (CFIA) 16 5.2. Identifying Critical Components 18 5.2.1. Personnel 18 5.2.2. Systems 18 5.3. Dependencies 19 5.4. Redundancy 21 6. Emergency Response Team (ERT) 23 7. Developing a Recovery Strategy 24 7.1. Types of backup 26 7.2. Virtualized Servers and Disaster Recovery 27 7.3. Other thoughts 28 8. Testing Recovery Plans 29 9. Role of virtualization 30 9.1. Role of VMware 31 9.2. Role of EMC 33 9.3. Role of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 35 10. VMware Site Recovery Manager 36 11. Standardization 41 12. Conclusion 42 References 44 EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing 2 About This Article Despite our best efforts and precautions, disasters of all kind eventually strike an organization, usually unanticipated and unannounced. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, or fires can threaten the very existence of an organization. Well-prepared organizations establish plans, procedures, and protocols to survive the effects that a disaster may have on continuing operations and help facilitate a speedy return to working order.