Ensuring High Availability and Business Continuity

After all your servers are installed, all storage is provisioned, all virtual networking is pinging, and all virtual machines are running, it is time to define the strategies or the methods to put into place in a virtual infrastructure that will provide high availability and business continuity. The deployment of a virtual infrastructure opens many new doors for disaster-recovery planning. The virtual infrastructure administrator will lead the charge into a new era of ideologies and methodologies for ensuring that business continues as efficiently as possible in the face of corrupted data, failed servers, or even lost datacenters. With the release of VMware vSphere, we have been given more tools at our disposal to reach our goal of increased uptime and recoverability of the infrastructure. You’ll learn about the methods and new features available to reach this goal. In this chapter, you will learn to: