Chapter 11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Backing up ESXi host configurations
- Configuring ESXi host logging
- Backing up virtual distributed switch configurations
- Deploying VMware Data Protection
- Using VMware Data Protection to back up virtual machines
- Replicating virtual machines with vSphere Replication
- Protecting the virtual datacenter with Site Recovery Manager
Introduction
The factors that influence the design of the backup and recovery of the virtual datacenter are Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). RPO defines the amount of data loss that is acceptable. RTO is the amount of time it should take to restore an application or service a workload after an outage. ...
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