Virtualize Your Disaster! Customer Use Cases & Scenarios
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Virtualize Your Disaster!Customer Use Cases & Scenarios
Customer Example: Praetorian Financial Group
Customer Profile:
Specialty insurance provider
HQ in New York, branches in several states
Using Windows 2003 running Citrix, Exchange, underwriting and claims processing applications
Challenges:
Recovery plan for core applications took weeks
Looking to consolidate servers and storage in various offices into a central datacenter
Needed to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations
Customer Solution
Primary Datacenter Recovery Site
FC SAN FC SAN
30 miles
Host-based replication running inside VM’s
• Able to meet RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 24 hours • Reduced TCO by 50%• Saw ROI of 600% in four months
Customer scenario Eliminating Planned Downtime
Scenario Periodic need to update server firmware
ChallengesRequired downtime for 100 servers
Forced to do firmware upgrades during off-hours maintenance windows
Avoiding downtime would require complex clustering implementation
Customer: Healthcare provider with over 45,000 employees
Physical Infrastructure
Result ZERO downtime for firmware updates
Eliminated scheduled maintenance window
Can perform maintenance at any time without causing disruption
With VMware Infrastructure
Customer scenarioDisaster Recovery Using Backup and Restore
Challenge
Need reliable, cost-effective DR for virtual and physical systems
Solution
Recover physical systems to virtual machines
Use replication technology to provide recovery for virtual machines
Customer: Healthcare insurance provider
Physical to Virtual Recovery Virtual to Virtual Recovery
Backup
P2V conversion
Recovery
Array-based replication
Customer scenario Disaster Recovery Leveraging Array-Based Replication
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Primary Data Center Recovery Site
EMC CX300
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EMC CX500
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HP Servers
16 miles
ESX 2.5.2
HP Servers
ESX 2.5.2
Customer: Financial services company providing transaction processing services to major financial institutions
Benefits of VMware Solution• Minimal additional hardware• DR independent of application
and OS• Saved $2M in infrastructure costs
Customer example Hardware-Independent Recovery
ScenarioRequire rapid recovery at remote site
Challenge Physical infrastructure would require duplicating primary datacenter—identical servers at recovery site
VMware Infrastructure Solution
Different servers at primary and secondary site
Fewer servers at recovery site
Use retired production servers at recovery site
Primary Data Center Recovery Data Center
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68 HP Servers
17 miles
50 Dell Servers
Storage Array Storage Array
Customer Success StoryThe Challenge: Australia’s largest retailer needed to introduce a platform that would enable consolidation, deliver “on-demand” server environments, and improve disaster recovery.
VirtualCenterclient
VMotion network
VMotion network
DataCenter #1
DataCenter #2
The Solution: Implement virtual infrastructure at both datacenters.
Customer Example: Before Virtualization
Production Datacenter
DB HR App App
• 60 servers (blade and rack servers)• Windows 2000, 2003, and NT • Database, HR, business applications,
infrastructure applications
OS: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003
Servers: Blade and rack servers
Applications: Oracle database, SQL server, HR apps
Storage: SAN array and internal disk
Customer Example: Before Virtualization
Production Datacenter
DB HR App App
DR Hosting Provider Site
DB HR App App
Backup data
• 60 servers (blade and rack servers)• Windows 2000, 2003, and NT • Database, HR, business applications,
infrastructure applications
• Hardware allocated at time of disaster• Unknown hardware makes and models• Recovery time >24 hours• Failing back to primary site takes months
Customer Example: With Virtualization
Production Datacenter
DB HR App App
DR Hosting Provider Site
DB HR App App
• 14 blade servers• 85% of systems running in
virtual machines• OS, application, and data
stored on SAN
• Recovery to any hardware they receive from hosting provider
• Recovery time within objectives (<24 hours)
• Failback to primary site takes days, not months
Image and data backups
HP Servers
Dell Servers
Production Environment: 400+ VMs on
68 Physical ESX Servers
Back-Up/DR Environment: 400+ VMs on
50 Physical ESX Servers
Primary Data Center Disaster Recovery Site
Customer Example: Disaster Recovery
Reduced recovery time from >20 hours to <20 minutes