Chapter 5. High Availability and Disaster Recovery Plan

Application availability is essential for the proper functioning of a company’s IT system. Implementing a secure hardware architecture that leverages the advanced features of vSphere 5 helps to reach high levels of service and rapid business recovery if disaster strikes the production site.

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Following this introductory section, this chapter is divided into two main parts. The first discusses local high availability within the datacenter. The second part discusses the disaster recovery plan and business continuity when a production site no longer functions following a major event. This chapter describes advanced features (such as vSphere HA [High Availability], vSphere FT ...

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