Hi All,
I am curious what type of Disaster Recovery plans everyone has in place today. This can be for cold, warm, or hot standby environments.
Does anyone have a SharePoint farm split between geographical locations? What technologies are you using to accomplish both SharePoint and SQL replication? OOTB, third-party, etc. How do you perform your replication if using SAN storage?
Has anyone been using the Hyper-V Replica feature that is new with Windows 2012? That seems to help quite a bit as long as everything is local storage. This also only accomplishes a ‘warm’ standby environment.
Just trying to get a feel for what works best for everyone out there and what technologies are used the most. Almost like a poll. Does anyone have a ‘hot’ standby/failover environment?
Thanks!
Joe
You can use SQL Replication technologies (AlwaysOn, Log Shipping, Mirroring), but not VM replication or SAN replication technologies. How you deal with SharePoint depends on the distance from the SQL Server as well as the SQL replication technology in use.
http://sharepoint-community.net/profiles/blogs/sharepoint-disaster-recovery-with-double-take
Ha, yeah…no one needs bad backups.
So basically, you couldn’t use Hyper-V Replica to replicate the VHD’s of the WFE/APP/DC servers, and then SQL Replication to replicate the farm content (to a live SQL server at secondary location obviously)?
Joe
You cannot maintain a consistent farm (unless we’re talking about a single server scenario with SQL and SharePoint installed on the same server) using underlying replication technology. Your VMs will not be consistent with each other, causing your DR farm to be invalid.
And who wants bad backups? That’s called a resume generating event 🙂
