From Zero to Instant Orchestrated DR in 6 seconds. Live!

Hello! This is my 2nd post on Datrium native DR capabilities. This time around I discuss the initial DR plan, configuration, the failover, and the failback of VMware VMs between sites and vCenters.

Before you go ahead I recommend watching the short videos on my post How Datrium ControlShift and CloudDVX are Deployed and Operated on AWS – Part 1 to understand how ControlShift is setup initially.

[Update] The 3rd post "ControlShift Series – Seamless Orchestrated VM Failback from DR Site" is already available.

If you are not interested on setup just keep reading.

The video below demonstrates how you can use ControlShift to create, test, and execute seamless orchestrated Disaster Recovery for all your VMware environments.

The video is 10 min, and this is all it took me to create, test, and failover a VM to my secondary site. The plan execution itself took only 6 seconds (RTO).

In my next post I will explain how to get the live VM on the DR site replicate back to the primary site without re-seeding the entire dataset and execute the Fail-back plan.

This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net