Enterprise Class Automated Disaster Recovery at Minimal Cost and Complexity

New VMware vCentre Site Recovery Manager 4 provides protection with optimised control, expanded storage support and ability to failover multiple sites to one

VMware today announced the availability of vCentre Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4, a leading solution automated, reliable and affordable disaster recovery. Part of the vCentre Product Family, SRM 4 provides automated disaster recovery for virtual environments and now features added support for Network File System (NFS) based storage replication, compatibility with vSphere 4 and simplified “many-to-one” failover using shared recovery sites.

IT services are under constant threat of disruption from; security breaches, human or process errors, technology failures and natural disasters. It is therefore crucial that appropriate action is taken to ensure operations can be restored to an acceptable predefined level within calculated time and cost parameters.

Major obstacles that prevent organisations from adequately protecting their IT infrastructures are the associated costs and complexity inherent in traditional disaster recovery processes. Updating and testing these processes present further challenges.

vCentre SRM 4 addresses these challenges by centralising management of recovery plans and automating the testing and recovery process, resulting in rapid, reliable and affordable disaster recovery. SRM 4 now provides:

• VMware vSphere 4 Support: (including Fault Tolerance) offers improved performance and protection of applications.
• Expanded Storage Support: allows users to leverage iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NFS storage and replication solutions
• Many-to-One Failover: protects multiple production sites with automated failover into a single, shared recovery site

"Disaster recovery is one of the most daunting and complicated challenges for IT organizations, and it isn't getting any easier as applications proliferate and expectations with regard to recovery times shorten," said Richard Villars, vice president of storage and executive strategies at IDC. "Virtualisation of server and storage environments is playing a key role in helping companies reduce the costs and complexities associated with implementing, testing, and executing a full disaster recovery, yet their effectiveness increasingly depends upon solutions that automate the fast expanding disaster recovery process itself."

Prolinx works with organisations to deliver comprehensive Disaster Recovery strategies. Our Business Continuity Impact service will help identify the most appropriate strategy for your organisation, based on acceptable recovery point objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). For more information visit www.prolinx.co.uk/datamanagement or call 01844 279199.

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