RSSHow Microsoft Hyper-V Helped My IT Shop Revamp Disaster Recovery
Munder Capital Management used Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology and Compellent SANs to revamp its disaster recovery strategy, eliminate 42 servers and slash cooling costs. Here's a look inside their plans and decisions.
Goerlich says Citrix XenServer also performed well, but that it didn't have the support of its backup and storage partners and that those partners were not developing for it.
New SAN Plays Key Role
HyperV also allowed native access to the disk—another advantage over the other systems Munder evaluated.
"We boot virtual servers from our Compellent SAN," says Goerlich. "Since we have multiple sites, if we lose disks at a site, we can bring them back up from images stored on the SAN. And HyperV supports replay or snapshot capability."
"While VMware does replay phenomenally, from our perspective we'd like to keep the replay on the SAN," Goerlich says. "HyperV takes a snapshot the same way VMware does. If you are using HyperV, you can use and recover those snapshots and design your workflow around those snapshots in the same way for both physical and virtual servers."
For a look at how two other companies revamped their DR strategies using virtualization, see CIO.com's recent case studies on Marriott's bold effort and Transplace's money-saving revamp.
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