In discussing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) as a subject, it is imperative that we not only identify what makes an Application “business-critical”, but also differentiate between BCDR and the closely related concept of “High Availability” (HA).Īn Application is deemed Business-critical if its interruption or non-availability negatively impacts a Business entity in such a way (and to such a degree) that the outage directly and indirectly affects it is unable to successfully continue its operations until and unless the Application is restored and reintroduced into service. A Microsoft Windows Client from which we will verify business continuity after restoring services.
A Clustered 2-Node Microsoft SQL Server instance.A Microsoft Windows Active Directory infrastructure with multiple Domain Controllers.In this Guide, we demonstrated a real-life business operations scenario, using the following 3-tiered Enterprise Application configuration and infrastructure: In this document, we will attempt to address this paradox by providing a detailed step-by-step guidance on how Businesses can leverage VMware Site Recovery Manager to provide a simplified, optimal, comprehensive and repeatable Solution for protecting business-critical infrastructure components and recovering them to restore business continuity in the event of a disaster event. Paradoxically, BCDR is arguably one of the most important considerations least planned and prepared for by enterprise Infrastructure Architects and Administrators. It is inarguable that very few things rate higher in the order of importance and desirability in the Enterprise than Business Continuity and Disaster Recover (BCDR).
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