Unitrends Reliable DR
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I have heard this question asked about 4 times this morning and I have only been here like 20 minutes. What is Unitrends Reliable DR?
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Yeah that I could have done myself. But can't listen to a video here. Please give me the break down.
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Oddly... the Anime music and intro really threw me off.
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Replicates "applications" over to a DR site via UEB or the Unitrends appliance. After replication these applications sit on the secondary storage array and are tested functional automatically by the ReliableDR software. This creates a recovery point every hour to meet a 15 minute RTO. When a failure occurs an admin would sign into the ReliableDR console and failover with the press of a button. This will spin up the secondary environment in ~15 minutes or less and have the application up and ready for users to access.
The presenter says everything configurable, but then goes into hard numbers. Not sure if that was intentional or not.
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Well, I took some notes for you @Minion-Queen
Anime beginning... (please ask them "why?" I didn't like it)
British chap speaking, a little bit fast and badly microphoned."DRAssurance is a methodology which enables you to guarantee your critical Virtual applications are fully recoverable"
"Full concrete compliance with SLA's from an RPO(?) and RTO(?) perspective."
See Figure A for a view of the white boardReplication from one site to another... "We don't mind what replication technology that you use. We fully support Array based replication, replication from your storage virtualisation vendors and in addition we do provide our own host based replication"
"Reliable DR" - Name of application installed at DR site
- Zero foot print in production environment
Things to define
- Virtual machines delivering the applications
- Recovery point objective for the application
- Recovery time objective
- application level tests... to check the integrity of the service.. to make sure it will fail over successfully
Reliable DR is ready to protect that application
snapshot of replicated VMs from secondary site storage array
- present snapshot to hypervisor (secondary site)
- recover application inside network isolated environment
-- predefined test is executed
--- If successful (meeting predefined requirements... the aforementioned RTO), snapshot is catalogued as certified recovery point
---- created environment is taken down, wait for 1 hour before process is repeated
Certified recovery points are created every hour/inline with recovery point objectives
If it comes to failover happen in primary site, log into Reliable DR console and right click --> failover
- Applications will come online (management soothing words added by him)
Benefits:
- Reduces risk
- Guaranteed application recovery
- Not about data. It's about ongoing applications and services critical for the business
- enforce RPO and RTO SLA's on a per application basis
- ability to reduce costs on DR testing
- Reduction in complexity
Screenshot of dashboard
- See Figure B
PDF reports on tests
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Figure A
Figure B
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More or less, it acts as an automated A-B switch. You have data on servers. You have a Unitrends appliance getting backups. You are also replicating to another appliance (or UEB). RDR is a software switch sitting between them and you. Normally, you go through it and connect to your primary backup data. If your primary backup goes down, it monitors that and flips the switch over to your replicated data and you're back in business. The 15 minute window is potentially far less costly than being down long enough to realize it and then manually restore/reconfigure.
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Thanks everyone, it's hard to really take the time to hunt for answers when it's loud.
