VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager is the market-leading disaster recovery product that ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. Site Recovery Manager provides cost-efficient built-in vSphere Replication, and supports a broad set of high-performance storage replication products to replicate virtual machines to a secondary site. Site Recovery Manager provides a simple interface to set up recovery plans that are coordinated across all infrastructure layers. Recovery plans can be tested non-disruptively as frequently as required to ensure they meet business objectives. At the time of a site failover or migration, Site Recovery Manager automates both failover and failback processes, ensuring fast and highly predictable RPOs and RTOs.
Promedia Technology Services, Inc. VMware Certified Professionals are fully certified and capable of designing and deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
OTV is an industry-first solution that significantly simplifies extending Layer 2 applications across distributed data centers. You can now deploy Data Center Interconnect (DCI) between sites without changing or reconfiguring your existing network design. With OTV you can deploy virtual computing resources and clusters across geographically distributed data centers, delivering transparent workload mobility, business resiliency, and superior computing resource efficiencies. Key OTV features include:
Extends Layer 2 LANs over any network: Uses IP-encapsulated MAC routing, works over any network that supports IP, designed to scale across multiple data centers
Simplifies configuration and operation: Enables seamless deployment over existing network without redesign, requires minimal configuration commands (as few as four), provides single-touch site configuration for adding new data centers
Increases resiliency: Preserves existing Layer 3 failure boundaries, provides automated multihoming, and includes built-in loop prevention
Maximizes available bandwidth: Uses equal-cost multipathing and optimal multicast replication
