Quorum BC-V: Disaster Recovery for the SMB | The Virtualization Practice

Quorum BC-V: Disaster Recovery for the SMB The Virtualization Practice:

One of the major benefits of virtualization for enterprises has been that through virtualization disaster recovery (DR) has become much easier and more cost effective to implement. This occurs because virtualization allows the entire environment for a server to be containerized in a VM which is nothing but a file that can easily be copied to a different location and brought up if servers in the main data center fail for some reason.

However when it comes to an SMB realizing these benefits, several factors still stand in the way. The first is that most SMB’s do not have the funds to virtualize their entire operation just to get the benefits of DR. Next is the fact that just virtualizing the servers does not really provide for DR, additional software is still needed to periodically update backup images, update backup data in databases, and most importantly replicate the most recent backup images to an off site location in case the primary site really does suffer a catastrophic event. The combination of these costs, processes, and logistics has kept real DR out of the reach of many SMB’s.