To meet ever growing IT infrastructure needs and to ensure business continuity in case of a site-level disaster, it is critical to have live mobility and fully automated, efficient disaster recovery (DR) processes for virtualized enterprise applications across data centers. Failure to have a robust and efficient mobility and fully automated disaster recovery solution can result in millions of dollars of lost revenue and employee productivity.This white paper showcases a flexible solution from Cisco®, VMware®, and EMC® that allows customers to efficiently achieve live mobility and fully automated DR for virtualized enterprise applications across data centers with less than 10ms round-trip time (RTT) latency between them.
Live mobility for virtualized applications across data centers enables IT organizations to efficiently meet various operational needs, e.g., data capacity expansion, seamless migrations, disaster avoidance, etc.
Fully automated DR allows customers to protect their mission critical enterprise applications against site-level disasters and ensures business continuance. A key advantage of this solution over manual, runbook style DR process execution is "minimum downtime with lowest Recovery Time Objective (RTO)". This is extremely critical for next generation cloud solutions required to host hundreds to thousands of virtualized applications on the same shared infrastructure.
The Cisco, VMware, and EMC design presented in this white paper is very modular so that, based on customer requirements, there is flexibility to deploy both the live mobility and fully automated DR solution or deploy any one of these solutions.
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