How Virtualization Changes Your Disaster Recovery Plans
Virtualization is transforming the data center. But did you know that virtualization can increase the risk of application downtime? Find out what it takes to get the same level of high availability and disaster recovery protection in the virtual server environment as in the physical environment.
If your company is like most large organizations, virtualization has become a fact of life in the data center. And you’ve probably learned by now how virtualization can help consolidate servers and drive down costs. But did you realize that virtualization can also increase the risk of application downtime?
Think about it: In the physical world, if a server goes down, three or four applications may be affected. But in the virtual world, where 10 or even 20 applications may be running on a single physical machine, the impact of downtime is much greater.
And make no mistake: The surging cost of downtime is putting more and more pressure on the business, which in turn means more and more pressure on IT.
The bottom line: High availability and disaster recovery in virtual environments should be treated the same as it is in physical environments.
To learn what it takes to get the same level of high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) protection in the virtual server environment as in the physical environment, see How Virtualization Changes Your Disaster Recovery Plans from Symantec.
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