The Top Ten Most Forgotten Things

White Paper from VMware for SMB customers about most forgotten things when building your disaster recovery plan.

When building your disaster recovery plan, you trying to think about everything. For sure, as a techie person, you won’t forgot about all the technical aspects of the DR plan. Will you? But what about the organizational aspects? In case you’re not yet VMware user or customer and just thinking about which solutions would suit your needs at best, basically there are 2 Essentials Kits available for small shops: vSphere Essentials or vSphere Essentials PLUS. The main differences between those two kits are not only in the content of each package, but also in the cost, because the Essentials PLUS package costs more. It’s normal since you’ll get some enterprise class features in it.

If your biggest issue is the price, the Essentials kit starts at $495, but if you’re seek a minimum of availability with a possibility of automatic recovery solution – with automatic restart of VMs on surviving host, than the Essentials PLUS kit fits your needs. In addition you’ll get a vMotion capability and built-in backup solution called VDR.

In this Whitepaper from VMware, in case you’re SMB user, so at best you’re the only one managing and implementing VMware Solution in your company. And there is not another administrator who can take care when you’re at vacations for example…. In such a cases you’ll need a clear document that everyone can understand, and which is updated, to be able to implement a disaster recovery scenario.

When something goes wrong, you should have a document which does summarize step-by-step a recovery of Individual file from your File server, or recovering a complete Virtual machine from yesterday’s backup. So with this white paper you might discover one or two things which are missing in your disaster recovery plan.

You can download the Whitepaper from this link.

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