Back up and replicate infrastructure with a monthly subscription
Talk to salesApplies only while the replicated VMs are running in failover mode
Total number of vCPUs needed:
$0 total price per hour
Total RAM needed:
$0 total price per hour
Implementing the right disaster recovery solution depends on several important factors. Your recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO and RPO, respectively), business continuity budget and server types all make a difference.
Name and type of solution |
Scenario |
Server type |
Time to recover (RTO) |
Risk of data loss (RPO) |
Cost |
Cold-site solution: online data backup |
Selected files on your servers are backed up to storage in a different building. You can restore them from any location with an internet connection. |
Physical |
Long |
Medium |
$ |
Cold-site
solution: |
Your virtual machine (VM) is backed up as a single file to storage in a different building. You can restore your VM on any server running the same hypervisor (Hyper-V or VMware). After it’s restored, your VM will run exactly as it did when you backed it up. |
Virtual |
Medium |
Medium |
$$ |
Warm-site solution: VM replication |
Your VM is replicated to a hypervisor outside your infrastructure. Your replicated VM is ready to be powered up by your cloud service provider infrastructure. |
Virtual |
Short |
Low-Medium |
$$$ |
Hot-site solution: mirroring |
Your application is configured with automatic replication on two servers (on-premises and in the cloud) that are always running. Replication is managed directly by the application, however not all applications have replication technology; configuration varies from one application to another. |
Physical or Virtual |
Short |
Low |
$$$$ |