Business Continuity Solution for Virtualised Hosting Environment


Customer

Internet hosting provider.

Region

London

Challenges

  • Data replication between Data Centres

  • Minimal data loss vital

  • Data Centre failover

  • Maintaining operating system integrity

  • Minimal manual intervention required

Solution

Embrionic worked with Digital Craftsmen to design and deliver a virtualised infrastructure with business continuity failover to a DR site. The solution included:

  • Single forest Active Directory based on Windows Server 2003

  • Clustered SQL Server 2005 solution with iSCSI shared storage

  • iSCSI Multi-path I/O for both VMware hosts and virtual machines

  • Scheduled SAN Replication

  • Full step-by-step failover procedures

Benefits

Full disaster recovery process for hosting environment:

  • Failover of entire environment to Disaster Recovery data centre site within fifteen minutes

  • Solution is scalable and has the capacity to adapt to the performance and customer levels required