Upload
magnus-henderson
View
215
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
About
www.planbdr.co.uk
Plan B is a specialist IT Disaster Recovery business based in the UK with operations in the UK and US, protecting servers in the UK, mainland Europe and the US.
We provide the only simple, affordable disaster recovery service guaranteed to immediately recover working IT servers and infrastructure.
• In a past life, we used to produce MANY quotes for DR• Cut the Margin to the bone• Was STILL too expensive• So customers decided to compromise their
requirement
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
Why go and Create Plan B?
www.planbdr.co.uk
• Take regular (nightly) copies of people’s machines• Convert the copies to run on our environment• Make a platform available to operate these systems
during disasters• Make it work every time• Make it cost-effective
Overall Principle
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
Plan B Disaster Recovery Service
www.planbdr.co.uk
Take System Snapshots of
protected servers
In emergency:Provide instant guaranteed
recovery of complete working server sets on remote platform
Make work on remote virtualisation
platform
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
Plan B Disaster Recovery Service
www.planbdr.co.uk
A Plan B appliance snapshots customer’s servers nightly
Snapshots are encrypted and sent off-site to the Plan B Recovery Platform
On the Recovery Platform, the snapshots are automatically converted to run in a virtual machine then booted up and tested
Recovery servers are therefore immediately available on the remote recovery platform – literally as quickly as they take to boot
Customers can access their recovered systems within minutes from any Internet connection
• ‘The Magic Bit’• Calculate differences between snapshot storage and
frozen host• Make updates to frozen host• Apply ‘Overlays’ to perform P2V conversion, network
changes, application-specific tweaks, and to deploy test harness
• Queue frozen host for testing
ConversionConversion
• Static• P2V• Test Harnesses• A/D Recovery• Application Specific Changes
• Dynamic• Network Re-Addressing• Host file mangling• Metabase changing• Exchange Reconfiguration
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
Example Overlays
www.planbdr.co.uk
• All snapshots tested, every time• In a combined Architecture with it’s peers
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
Test Behaviour
www.planbdr.co.uk
• One click invocation• Systems available in the time it takes them to
boot• Recent Recovery Point - data typically
available from last night
Plan B Recovery Platform
• Adaptive Networking• Network devices reconfigured on demand
• Service Redirection• DNS and MX configuration as well
• Vmware DRS• Handles load-balancing inside the environment
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
Dynamic Platform
www.planbdr.co.uk
• Web Accessible Systems• Simply over the internet, to the customer’s users
• Internal Systems• SSL VPN• IPSec VPN for site-to-site
Access to Systems
• Minimum IT down-time – Minimum disruption• Handle IT disaster rather than be subject to it• Simple to set up and live with• Guaranteed recovery within minutes• Recovery independent of the IT Team• Very cost effective
© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009
Benefits of the Plan B service
www.planbdr.co.uk