The expansion of IT systems to power more and more mission-critical business processes is fueling both an increase in the importance of business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) planning and a corresponding increase in the difficulty of providing DR coverage that is both cost-effective and robust. Any time the IT systems that power a business's core processes are disrupted, the negative business impact is extremely serious.

This white paper describes a high availability solution that provides protection for mission-critical servers through switchover to a DR site that is powered by VMware Infrastructure. Learn more about the benefits of this technology, including:

• Over-the-WAN replication and switchover
• Regular recovery testing without disruption
• Continuous data protection against corruption
• VMHA for simple, cost-effective local clustering of DR site servers
• Virtual machine snapshot and copy for rapid alternative recovery at the DR site