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institution will typically see the day when support staff will be successful. The
higher utilisation during are around to manage it, process can then be reversed
TECHNOL
student enrolments. Most hunting for the appropriate only when it’s safe for normal
businesses see higher procedures document or operations to be resumed.
utilization during financial manual that tells you in which
year end, what seasonal order systems need to be shut Practise makes perfect
OGY
trends impact your business? down cannot be left to chance As with any other critical
Determining this baseline or subject to human error. business function it is vital
planning can be done very that business continuity plans
effectively by tools such as Better by far that the process are fully tested to iron out any
VIR
NetIQ’s AppManager Suite of is completely automated and hiccups before it happens for
TU
products which provide a the failover can be completed real. Remember when it
comprehensive analysis on efficiently in just minutes, happens for real you likely
ALIZ
which you can base your without the need for human won’t be expecting it.
A
virtualisation forward intervention other than that of TION
planning. maybe approving a change A test weekend is typically the
control. best way of ensuring that
The role of automation your disaster recovery plan
Another critical factor to This is again an area where IT actually works, fully
consider in disaster recovery automation can pay documenting and resolving
planning is that - since a dividends. It could mean that any issues will serve as a
disaster could occur at any the host server where 50% of valuable exercise. Being able
time day or night - the capacity is being used for to accurately monitor and
process has to be largely the development and test track the impact of
automated, so that when, for team can be shutdown virtualisation whether it is in
example, the clock is ticking automatically in the event of a the context of disaster
on the remaining UPS battery power outage or similar recovery, or in terms of the
life and there is just 20 incident and the server now impact on the user’s
minutes available to shut has the DR headroom it performance in every day
down all the servers and requires. business, is vital in order to
migrate operations to your effectively manage your
disaster recovery environment Additionally through systems. If and when
– irrespective of whether this automation the failover can disaster does hit and your
is a virtual or physical – the be instantiated only when business is in jeopardy isn’t
process operates like clock resource checks are complete not the best time to figure out
work. Even if it occurs during in order to ensure the failover that you DR plan isn’t
adequate.
A staged migration plan,
supported by careful pre and
post migration system
monitoring of the virtual and
physical infrastructure,
including applications,
operating systems as well
as the virtual environment
itself will help to ensure a
smooth and successful
transition.
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