(music) It's not a question of if, but when. Whether it's a vicious cyber attack or an unexpected disaster, protecting your business-critical apps and data with cloud-based
disaster recovery as a service can help you recover quickly. But, how do you do that? Start by creating a DR strategy, identify your business goals, RPOs, RTOs, and any constraints. Define a high level DR plan
with specific execution tasks. And assemble your DR dream team, handpicked experts from
critical technology areas, to help drive your implementation. Next, discover and
analyze the environments that need to be protected, including virtual workloads, applications, virtual infrastructure, and packet flows. Map application and workload dependencies and establish protection groups, collections of VMs that
fail over together. Configure replications of the VMs to the cloud to match your
RPO and RTO requirements. Then create the detailed
disaster recovery plan with a specific sequence of recovery steps to recover your protection
groups and individual VMs. Now, it's time to test your plan. Select a specific set of snapshots. Live mount them so the VMs become instantly visible
and validate the failover. If changes are needed, update and test until your DR plan is reliable and consistent. Everything working? Great, get started
operating your DR solution, and implementing standard
operating procedures. (yawn) And sleep a little better at night knowing you have a solid plan in place. But remember, disaster recovery planning and validation is an ongoing process, so continue to discover, analyze, update, and test your DR plan to
ensure smooth operations no matter what happens. Learn how VMware professional services can help you implement disaster recovery as a service. Visit VMware.com today.
