HP recently launched free online classes and this one is very valuable to all business small and large. It gives a detailed over view of the benefits of virtualization, compares disaster preparedness through virtualization with other business continuity plans and provides the business benefits of deploying a virtualization IT strategy.
Virtualization Can Help Keep Your Business Running in the Case of Disaster
Virtualization, as it relates to disaster recovery, is about simplifying the disaster recovery infrastructure requirements and reducing costs through eliminating the need for redundant hardware. You can think of virtualization as making a single physical device (such as a storage device, server or operating system) appear to function as multiple logical resources or making multiple physical resources (such as storage devices and servers) appear as a single logical resource.
Without virtualization, a business continuity plan is time consuming, expensive, complex, slow and unreliable.
Virtualization enables multiple virtual machines to run concurrently on the same physical device. By separating the operating system from the physical hardware, virtualization enables you to:
- Quickly provision, copy and save virtual machines so that you can move information from one physical server to another. This enables zero downtime maintenance as well as enables workload consolidation.
- Create virtual machines with their own fully configured virtual hardware to run operating systems and applications.
- Operate many virtual machines with heterogeneous operating systems concurrently on the same physical machine.
It’s safe to say that disasters will occur, outages are the norm and your customers are expecting uninterrupted service. Implementation of a business continuity plan with virtualization will not only help you contain costs, but it will also provide an extra level of production support for your customers and keep them coming back.
This brief covers the key features and capabilities of a business continuity strategy with virtualization. In particular, you’ll now know what a business continuity solution with virtualization is, how it compares to other recovery methods and how you can develop a robust business continuity plan incorporating virtualization technology. The course is free and very well done I’d suggest reading it now before the next disaster strikes.
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This post was written by admin on October 17, 2008
