Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Validating Priorities

When a disaster strikes that affects an entire server room or office location, the priority of restoring systems and operations should already be determined. First and foremost are the core infrastructure systems, such as networking and power, followed by authentication systems, and the remaining core bare-minimum services. In the event of a failure that involves multiple systems (for example, a web server failure that supports 10 separate applications), the priority of recovery should be presented and approved by management. If each of these 10 applications takes 30 minutes to recover, it could be 5 hours before the system is fully functional, but if one particular application is critical to business operations, this application ...