Disaster Recovery User's Guide

You may buy the Disaster Recovery service in subscription term-lengths of 1 month, 3 months, 12 months,
24 months, up to 36 months. You can also buy and add resources ( 20GB vRAM, 10GHz vCPU and 1TB of
storage) in bundles. The add-on options offered with the Disaster Recovery service are similar to the options
provided with the vCloud Air core services.
Figure 1‑2. vCloud Air Subscription Services
Dedicated Cloud
Virtual Private Cloud
Disaster Recovery
Physically isolated
Your private cloud instance
Logically isolated
Guaranteed resource allocation
Logically isolated
Business continuity solution
Base resources:
• 120GB vRAM
• 300GHz vCPU
Base resources:
• 20GB vRAM
• 10GHz vCPU
Base resources:
• 20GB vRAM
• 10GHz vCPU
Starts at 6TB Starts at 2TB
Starts at 1TB
• 50Mbps allocated
• 1Gbps burstable
• 3 public IP addresses
• 10Mbps allocated
• 50Mbps burstable
• 2 public IP addresses
• 10Mbps allocated
• 50Mbps burstable
• 2 public IP addresses
Why Use Disaster Recovery in vCloud Air?
There are few key factors to consider before you decide what type of a Disaster Recovery solution is right
for you.
Are you looking to build and maintain your disaster recovery data center on your own, have a large budget,
and are looking at hosted solutions? Typically, this is not the case. You may have the budget but not enough
skills or vice versa, in which case vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery is the perfect solution.
Figure 1‑3. How do you decide?
SRM
True multi-tenancy and multi-site
coexistencecoexistence
(default)
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
vCloud Air
Region 2
vCloud Air
Region 1
vCloud Air
Disaster Recovery
vCloud Air
Partner
service
contract
Internal skills
Hosted solution
Budget for second
data center
managed service?
Seeking disaster
recovery solution?
Pass
VMware
vSphere customers
Using the Disaster Recovery service to replicate workloads from a source site to vCloud Air provides the
following benefits:
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Introduces major efficiency gains over traditional business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR)
practices.
Chapter 1 The Disaster Recovery Service
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