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Disaster Recovery in OCI Powered by RackWare

  • nate6637
  • 2 days ago
  • 3 min read

Enabling Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Disaster Recovery Landing Zone for production workloads running anywhere. Protects Physical Servers, Virtual Machines and Containers​ Running in any data center or any other Cloud​.


Ensuring Business Continuity in the Digital Age​


In today's digital landscape, ensuring the uninterrupted operation of data centers and cloud services is critical for business continuity. Challenges such as ransomware, cyberattacks, botched third-party software upgrades, natural disasters, and hardware failures, can lead to unexpected outages. An essential component of business continuity planning is having a robust Disaster Recovery (DR) solution that enables rapid failover to a geographically remote and safe location.​ ​


Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with its rapidly growing global cloud footprint and high-speed interconnects between its cloud partners, presents an excellent option for Disaster Recovery. RackWare’s CloudProtect solution facilitates seamless replication and rapid failover of any server or container from any source into OCI.


Key RackWare Benefits


  • Easy to deploy​

  • Consistent and Simple workflow ​

  • Cloud to Cloud​

  • In Memory DBs and Apps​

  • Central Management in Multicloud env.​

  • Non-disruptive DR testing in Target site​

  • Sophisticated Policy Engine​

  • Handles Enterprise complexities​

  • Available on OCI Marketplace​


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Disaster Recovery within OCI:​

  • OCI Region to Region​

  • Oracle PCA to OCI​

  • Oracle C3 to OCI​

  • OLVM to OCI​

  • Any combination of Oracle technologies​


Datacenter to OCI DR​:

  • Any hypervisor to OCI​

  • Physical to OCI​


Other Cloud to OCI DR:​

  • AWS to OCI​

  • Azure to OCI​

  • GCP to OCI​

  • Any Cloud to OCI​



Disaster Recovery Best Practices​


Combining OCI with RackWare to achieve optimal results​


  • Choose a DR hosting infrastructure in a remote geography: Consider a distance to protect from natural disasters as well as technical outages. Oracle provides many great solutions here, including many OCI Regions, Dedicated Regions, Cloud Compute @Customer, PCA and even OLVM in a data center. ​

  • Isolate the DR Site: This helps protect from the spread of viruses and ransomware. Isolation also protects from technical outage chain-reactions. ​

  • Deploy all intelligence and automation in the Target DR site: Do not rely on onsite backup or software. Your DR solution should be able to automatically failover and fallback from any source into the DR site, and vice-versa. RackWare CloudProtect is the only solution that can achieve this across all Oracle environments. ​

  • Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective are important, but the primary focus should be on easy, efficient, repeatable bring up to operational levels. If you can't get your application to run properly in short order nothing else matters. ​

  • Conduct Frequent DR Tests: Run regular non-disruptive DR tests and be disciplined in consistently updating runbooks and notes. ​

  • Train Multiple Teams: Train at least two sets of teams in different geographies to execute the DR functions. If an outage is from a natural disaster it's likely that the local team may not be available or have connectivity to the DR site. ​

  • Establish Clear Communication Protocols: Develop a definitive communications process to trigger a DR failover event, preferably with double verification across two remote teams. ​


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Other Considerations – Why RackWare Stands Out


  • Most reliable Failover and Fallback mechanism​

  • Security and Compliance​

  • Scalable to tens of thousands of servers and containers​

  • Multicloud​

  • Central Management in a Multicloud and multi-data-center environment​

  • Cost effective​

  • Converged Disaster Recovery and Backup in one solution​

  • Extremely easy to deploy

  • Consume with Universal Credits on ​

 
 
 
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