Hyper-Converged DR Strategies

Make DR Simple and Complete

Meet Our Speaker

• 6 years at Quorum

• 18+ years IT leadership experience

• Experience in delivering a best

practice driven IT department

• 8 years providing DR planning,

testing, and support for over 100 US

banks

Gabe Gambill

Director of Product and Technical Operations, Quorum

Today’s Key Takeaways

• Common approaches to DR: the good and the bad

• Workload availability

• DRaaS vs. Traditional DR

• Hyperconverged recovery… What and Why?

• The PREcovery difference

Overview

Business Continuity

Health and Safety

Risk Management

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Definition

• Disaster etymology –

– Latin “ill-starred event”

• Dictionary Definition –

– a sudden event, such

as an accident or a

natural catastrophe,

that causes great

damage or loss of life.

• In business –

– An event that causes

loss of business

productivity.

– Ranging from a single

file lost, to a data

center, or cloud

architecture failure, to a

natural disaster

Disaster Recovery Overview

• Plan

– With business units

• Schedule

– With End User Testers

• Test

– Everything (don’t quit)

• Update

– Frequently

• Rinse and Repeat

Disaster Planning

# Device Result Impact Criticality Mitigation

1 Internet

Connection

No

outside

access

Business not able

to send or receive

email or any

business

transaction

1 - Highest Dual Internet

connection via

different

provider and

medium

2 Router

Disaster Testing

• Go through activity to test each item

identified in plan

• Easiest method is a site failure

• Scheduling

• Test recovery processes

• End User Testing!!

• Update and Repeat

The New Expectation: Workload Availability

“In 2015, enterprise online backup providers

must either make the leap to… (DRaaS) and

provide workload availability in addition to

data protection, or prepare to suffer a similar

fate to Symantec Backup Exec cloud.”

Data Protection

TapeTape

x xx

Tape

Fast File Recovery

x xx

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery

Business versus Technical solution

DRaaS Obsoletes Traditional Server Data Protection

20 x

Servers

5 x Servers

RTO

minutes

Soln #3

Instant

Server

Recovery

5 x Servers

RTO

hours

Soln #4

On-demand

Server

Recovery

10 x Servers

RTO

days

Soln #5

On-demand

Server

Recovery

Soln

#2

DP

archive

Soln

#1

DP

object

recovery

Traditional DP + HA + DR

Single Solution• Instant server

recovery

• On-demand

server

recovery

• DP object

recovery

• DP archive

Modern DR

Anticipated Cloud Benefits

Hyperconvergence?

Advantages?

ReliabilityManagement

Support

User ExperienceDeployment

Cost

• Hyper-convergence (hyperconvergence)

is a type of infrastructure system with a

software-centric architecture that tightly

integrates compute, storage, networking

and virtualization resources and other

technologies from scratch in a commodity

hardware box supported by a single

vendor.

Hyper-converged Recovery Aspects

Data Protection

Fast File Recovery

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Testing

What Qualifies?

• Does not rely on

production

infrastructure

• Handles all aspects

of hyper converged

recovery

• Simple

• Single Solution

• Allow testing of each

aspect

DRaaS: The Equalizer

• DR sites once reserved for deep pockets

• Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is more

cost-effective

• Level playing field for small and medium-sized

businesses (SMBs) – enables protect of IT infrastructure

without breaking the bank.

Source: http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/video/DRaaS-pricing-lifts-the-burden-of-backup-responsibilities

DRaaSDR

Hyper-converged Recovery = DRaaS

Summation

• Hyper-Convergence

– Data Protection

– Fast File Recovery

– High Availability

– Disaster Recovery

– TEST!!!

• DRaaS

– Virtualization

– Cloud

– All encompassing

• TEST

– Include the business

– Walk Through

– Full Test

– Test Daily

Thank you!