Use Case: Dell AIM and Implementing Disaster Recovery
Date
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4/14/2011
The costs of data center downtime can, in many cases, be measured in millions of dollars per minute. Companies with unreliable disaster recovery processes are taking a potentially fatal risk.
Unfortunately, the complexity inherent in disaster recovery makes fast failover difficult and complex. Recovering a data center means switching to a new location of not just machines, but also storage access and its associated network connectivity at a moment’s notice.
Out-of-sync data centers are unreliable, and the need to synchronize multiple data centers exacerbates the complexity of the disaster recovery process. Every time a change is made in the production data center — a script is changed, a server is added, network permissions are reconfigured — these changes need to be replicated to the remote data centers. Manual replication is both error-prone and tedious and can lead to mistakes and delays.
Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) can help automate these processes, leveraging your current investment in IT infrastructure, and also provide a cost-effective means to implement disaster recovery.
Unfortunately, the complexity inherent in disaster recovery makes fast failover difficult and complex. Recovering a data center means switching to a new location of not just machines, but also storage access and its associated network connectivity at a moment’s notice.
Out-of-sync data centers are unreliable, and the need to synchronize multiple data centers exacerbates the complexity of the disaster recovery process. Every time a change is made in the production data center — a script is changed, a server is added, network permissions are reconfigured — these changes need to be replicated to the remote data centers. Manual replication is both error-prone and tedious and can lead to mistakes and delays.
Dell™ Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM) can help automate these processes, leveraging your current investment in IT infrastructure, and also provide a cost-effective means to implement disaster recovery.
- Reliability
Dell AIM ensures that when a disaster occurs, your remote data center is prepared to come online — without human intervention. - Speed
Dell enables your disaster recovery data center to go from dead, bare metal to live, networked servers in 5 minutes or less. - Ease
Dell AIM saves you from having to manually replicate changes across your data centers, and from the errors that manual replication can introduce.
