The main point of disaster recovery (DR) is to decouple it from your production environment. This is the reason that offsite (and offline) backups are so important. Having your backups…
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Simplifying Should Present Less Issues, Right? Recently we had an interesting routing conundrum with a client when we consolidated their networking infrastructure. They have two redundant circuits and an entire…
In the opening keynote for Ignite yesterday, Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2016 will be generally available by mid-October. The evaluation edition of the release to manufacturing (RTM) version is…
While it’s great to fantasize about having everything you could possibly need to achieve high availability, oftentimes in smaller customers we find ourselves with one UPS larger than the other or…
Generally, critical servers in a rack have two power supplies. The theory behind that is – since all your critical data is in your servers — if a power source…
The phone rang at 7am one morning: “Hey, we’ve got a big problem.” “What’s up?” “I just got a call that the air conditioner’s condenser pump went out, the room is…
At Mirazon, we’re always on the forefront of technology and we like to work with best of breed partners. For us, Peak 10 data centers is one of those partners….
Well, I suppose we can’t forget to actually document how to recover the servers themselves. The best thing that has ever happened for planning DR is virtualization. It gives a unified recovery…
No discussion of high availability is complete without a quick dive into disaster recovery. Technically, disaster recovery (DR) is not at all the same as high availability (HA). If you…
In the last installment, we discussed internal networking and how, when done right, gains a reasonable amount of high availability. We discussed multiple cables, spanning tree, and some inside-out types…
We have made reasonable efforts to make our environment redundant and highly available. We have discussed various methods for making server workloads and storage as available as possible. However, we cannot…