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Seven Virtualization DR Myths

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Seven Virtualization DR MythsAs IT departments across the world move more virtualization and virtual technologies into their datacenters, they face new challenges and often confusion about best practices, particularly around server and data protection for business continuity. New disaster recovery and high availability technologies have emerged based on server virtualization, and many assert themselves as the best way to protect virtual machines and data. Myths about virtual server and data protection have risen from these virtual technologies, and it is time to debunk at least seven of them.

Myth #1 - Agentless Protection is the Only Way to Protect VMsWith no advanced application awareness or real-time transactional integrity, agentless protection alone limits the flexibility of protection! To fully protect VMs, you need agent-based and agentless.

Myth #2 - Storage-Based Replication is Best for AvailabilityStorage based replication has slower performance, is limited to like to like storage vendor arrays, imposes hidden costs and limits technology choices. Server based replication provides the best performance and cross-platform capabilities.

Myth #3 - You Cant Protect Across Different Virtual HypervisorsAgentless technologies cannot protect across different hypervisors or cloud solutions. Only agent-based technologies can provide this business agility.

Myth #4 - Backup is still the Best Solution for DRVirtualization-based protection solutions use periodic backup, a method that provides poor Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

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Myth #5 - Virtualization is a One-Way TripWorkloads need to be mobile across physical, virtual, and cloud environments but many built-in and point migration and protection solutions offer no path back to original source.

Myth #6 Agentless replication technologies alone can provide protection for all my applications.Applications of different tiers need different levels of protection! Your DR strategy should include real-time replication for mission critical applications which cannot be provided by agentless technologies.

Myth #7 - Agentless replication tools can be used for DR into a Cloud of my choice.Agentless replication severely limits your technology preferences and choice of cloud vendors. Agent-based replication offers platform agnostic protection and offers more adaptability.

7 Myths TakeawayNow that weve cleared up the myths about virtual server protection and workload mobility, you wont be lured into using an overly simplistic disaster recovery method for all your virtual machines. Datacenters are complex environments and you need to deploy a solution like Double-Take 7.0 that offers a unified protection approach. It includes proven disaster recovery and availability technologies that span physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

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SummaryNow that weve cleared up the myths about what your Business Continuity solution for virtual servers needs to look like, you wont be lured into using a single disaster recovery method for all your virtual machines. IT datacenters remain complex environments, and you may need to deploy multiple protection approaches, including proven disaster recovery and availability technologies that span physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

Vision Solutions has been providing disaster recovery and high availability solutions for over 20 years across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Vision Solutionsprovides both agent-based and agentless protection solutions for virtual machines across multiple hypervisors and provides the most efficient real-time replication across any distance. No one provides more solutions for protecting or migrating physical, virtual, or cloud-based servers than Vision Solutions and no one can provide the flexibility to protect and migrate across any combination of these technologies.

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About Vision SolutionsWith over 25,000 customers globally, Vision Solutions is one of the industrys largest providers of business continuity and information availability solutions for IBM i, Windows, Linux, AIX, and Cloud environments. Visions trusted MIMIX, iTERA and Double-Take brands keep business-critical information continuously protected and available. With an emphasis on affordability and ease-of-use, Vision products and services help customers achieve their IT protection and recovery goals, which in-turn improves profitability, productivity, regulation compliance and customer satisfaction. Vision Solutions also offers the tools and competency needed to migrate complex, multi-layered computing environments. These solutions are designed to eliminate the strain on resources, dramatically reduce server downtime, and offset the risks associated with migrations. Regardless of OS or hypervisor, Vision Solutions offers the technology needed to make every migration a success.

Vision Solutions oversees a global partner network that includes IBM, HP, Microsoft, VMware, Dell and hundreds of resellers and system integrators. Privately held by Thoma Bravo, Inc., Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine, California with development, support and sales offices worldwide.

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