Virtualize Your Disaster!Customer Use Cases & Scenarios

Customer Example: Praetorian Financial Group

Customer Profile:

Specialty insurance provider

HQ in New York, branches in several states

Using Windows 2003 running Citrix, Exchange, underwriting and claims processing applications

Challenges:

Recovery plan for core applications took weeks

Looking to consolidate servers and storage in various offices into a central datacenter

Needed to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations

Customer Solution

Primary Datacenter Recovery Site

FC SAN FC SAN

30 miles

Host-based replication running inside VM’s

• Able to meet RPO of 15 minutes and RTO of 24 hours • Reduced TCO by 50%• Saw ROI of 600% in four months

Customer scenario Eliminating Planned Downtime

Scenario Periodic need to update server firmware

ChallengesRequired downtime for 100 servers

Forced to do firmware upgrades during off-hours maintenance windows

Avoiding downtime would require complex clustering implementation

Customer: Healthcare provider with over 45,000 employees

Physical Infrastructure

Result ZERO downtime for firmware updates

Eliminated scheduled maintenance window

Can perform maintenance at any time without causing disruption

With VMware Infrastructure

Customer scenarioDisaster Recovery Using Backup and Restore

Challenge

Need reliable, cost-effective DR for virtual and physical systems

Solution

Recover physical systems to virtual machines

Use replication technology to provide recovery for virtual machines

Customer: Healthcare insurance provider

Physical to Virtual Recovery Virtual to Virtual Recovery

Backup

P2V conversion

Recovery

Array-based replication

Customer scenario Disaster Recovery Leveraging Array-Based Replication

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Primary Data Center Recovery Site

EMC CX300

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HP Servers

16 miles

ESX 2.5.2

HP Servers

ESX 2.5.2

Customer: Financial services company providing transaction processing services to major financial institutions

Benefits of VMware Solution• Minimal additional hardware• DR independent of application

and OS• Saved $2M in infrastructure costs

Customer example Hardware-Independent Recovery

ScenarioRequire rapid recovery at remote site

Challenge Physical infrastructure would require duplicating primary datacenter—identical servers at recovery site

VMware Infrastructure Solution

Different servers at primary and secondary site

Fewer servers at recovery site

Use retired production servers at recovery site

Primary Data Center Recovery Data Center

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68 HP Servers

17 miles

50 Dell Servers

Storage Array Storage Array

Customer Success StoryThe Challenge: Australia’s largest retailer needed to introduce a platform that would enable consolidation, deliver “on-demand” server environments, and improve disaster recovery.

VirtualCenterclient

VMotion network

VMotion network

DataCenter #1

DataCenter #2

The Solution: Implement virtual infrastructure at both datacenters.

Customer Example: Before Virtualization

Production Datacenter

DB HR App App

• 60 servers (blade and rack servers)• Windows 2000, 2003, and NT • Database, HR, business applications,

infrastructure applications

OS: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003

Servers: Blade and rack servers

Applications: Oracle database, SQL server, HR apps

Storage: SAN array and internal disk

Customer Example: Before Virtualization

Production Datacenter

DB HR App App

DR Hosting Provider Site

DB HR App App

Backup data

• 60 servers (blade and rack servers)• Windows 2000, 2003, and NT • Database, HR, business applications,

infrastructure applications

• Hardware allocated at time of disaster• Unknown hardware makes and models• Recovery time >24 hours• Failing back to primary site takes months

Customer Example: With Virtualization

Production Datacenter

DB HR App App

DR Hosting Provider Site

DB HR App App

• 14 blade servers• 85% of systems running in

virtual machines• OS, application, and data

stored on SAN

• Recovery to any hardware they receive from hosting provider

• Recovery time within objectives (<24 hours)

• Failback to primary site takes days, not months

Image and data backups

HP Servers

Dell Servers

Production Environment: 400+ VMs on

68 Physical ESX Servers

Back-Up/DR Environment: 400+ VMs on

50 Physical ESX Servers

Primary Data Center Disaster Recovery Site

Customer Example: Disaster Recovery

Reduced recovery time from >20 hours to <20 minutes