Data Center Continuity

When a data center disaster happens, the company is in crisis. Depending on what caused the issue, you may be dealing with floods, fires, building integrity issues, or power and hardware failure.

To proactively prepare for an emergency, you need to have a network risk mitigation plan in place. When an emergency strikes, you don’t want to be tweaking policies, reading help manuals, or trying to figure out how to control your network – you want to enact your risk mitigation plan.

Create your risk mitigation plan with Exinda’s Data Center Continuity Solution.

There are several phases to your risk mitigation plan.

Phase One: Normal day-to-day operations

To ensure that your backups have adequate network bandwidth to complete on time, yet are not interfering with your day-to-day business activities, create a policy that allocates adequate bandwidth to your backup file transfer.

Go to the Optimizer and configure your policies for everyday use

Phase Two: Data center disaster strikes

To ensure that your remaining data center(s) can handle the traffic, before disaster strikes, create a separate policy configuration that will be suitable if a data center goes down. When the data center actually goes down, all you need to do is enact the disaster policy set.

Pre-disaster:

1. Go to Optimizer and configure your policies as you need them to behave immediately upon a data center disaster.
2. Go to System > Maintenance and save your disaster configuration as a named file. (e.g. DC-down-policies).

As disaster strikes:

1. Go to System > Maintenance and apply the previously saved configuration.
2. Check the checkbox for the desired configuration and click the Switch To.
3. Restart the Optimizer, by selecting Restart from the Optimizer menu on the status bar.

Phase Three: Data center recovery

To ensure that your remaining data center(s) can handle the traffic while your affected data center is recovering, create a separate policy configuration that will be suitable during recovery. When the data center starts the recovery process, all you need to do is enact the recovery policy set.

Pre-disaster:

1. Go to Optimizer and configure your policies as you need them to behave during a data center recovery phase.
2. Go to System > Maintenance and save your disaster recovery configuration as a named file. (e.g. DC-recovery-policies)

As DC recovers:

Go to System > Maintenance and apply the previously saved configuration.

Check the checkbox for the desired configuration and click the Switch To.

Restart the Optimizer, by selecting Restart from the Optimizer menu on the status bar.