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Leveraging OLVM as a Disaster Recovery Landing Zone with RackWare

  • nate6637
  • Aug 14
  • 3 min read

Overview


Business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) are critical components of enterprise IT strategy. Organizations require a resilient, cost-effective, and flexible solution to ensure workloads remain operational in the face of disruptions. Open-Source Virtualization Manager (OLVM) provides a robust, enterprise-grade virtualization platform that can serve as an effective disaster recovery (DR) landing zone no matter where your production workloads are currently running. RackWare’s intelligent automation platform simplifies workload mobility, replication, and failover across heterogeneous environments.


Key Benefits


  • Cost Efficiency – OLVM eliminates the need for expensive proprietary virtualization solutions, reducing overall DR spend.

  • Simplified Management – RackWare’s automation platform reduces operational overhead and accelerates recovery.

  • Vendor Agnosticism – Supports a wide range of platforms, preventing lock-in and enhancing flexibility.

  • High Availability & Scalability – Ensures business continuity with near-zero RTO and flexible workload scaling.


Challenges in Disaster Recovery


  • Complexity of Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Deployments – Managing workloads across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments requires significant orchestration.

  • High Costs of Traditional DR Solutions – Maintaining a secondary data center with continuously running resources can be prohibitively expensive.

  • Time-Consuming Recovery Processes – Minimizing RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) requires automation and seamless integration.

  • Vendor Lock-in – Proprietary DR solutions often limit flexibility and increase long-term costs.


Solution: OLVM + RackWare


The combination of OLVM and RackWare provides an efficient and scalable DR solution by enabling automated workload replication, failover, and fallback with minimal manual intervention. This approach ensures operational resilience without the excessive costs of traditional DR infrastructure.


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Key Components


  1. OLVM as a DR Landing Zone

    1. Enterprise-ready open-source virtualization with robust performance and security.

    2. Cost-effective infrastructure with flexible compute, storage, and networking options.

    3. Support for live migration and high availability to ensure workload uptime.

  2. RackWare’s Intelligent Automation Platform

    1. Replication & Migration – Seamlessly move workloads from production environments (VMware, KVM, AWS, Azure, etc.) to OLVM.

    2. Continuous Data Synchronization – Ensures minimal data loss with scheduled or real-time replication.

    3. Automated Failover & Fallback – Reduces downtime by enabling near-instantaneous workload recovery.

    4. Policy-Based Orchestration – Customizable recovery plans to meet business-specific RTO and RPO requirements.


How It Works


  1. Initial Setup & Replication

    1. RackWare agents are deployed in the production environment to monitor and replicate workloads to OLVM.

    2. Policies are configured to define replication frequency and failover conditions.

  2. Disaster Event & Failover

    1. Upon a disruption, RackWare triggers failover workflows to launch replicated workloads on OLVM.

    2. Network configurations and dependencies are automatically adjusted to maintain application connectivity.

  3. Fallback & Resynchronization

    1. Once the primary environment is restored, RackWare automates the fallback process, synchronizing changes made during the DR event.

    2. Workloads are restored to the original infrastructure with minimal downtime.


Use Cases


  • Business Continuity & DR: Ensures minimal downtime by replicating workloads to Oracle OLVM for quick failover during a disaster.

  • Cloud Migration: Simplifies migration to Oracle Cloud or hybrid cloud environments, using OLVM as a DR landing zone.

  • Automated Failback & Testing: Allows automated fallback from OLVM to primary sites and nondisruptive DR testing.

  • VM & App Recovery: Supports granular recovery of VMs and applications without restoring entire infrastructure.

  • Cost-Efficiency: Reduces DR site costs by leveraging OLVM’s scalability and RackWare’s automated resource allocation.

  • Backup & Replication: Automates real-time backup and replication of critical data and workloads to OLVM.

  • Multi-Cloud DR: Supports cross-cloud failover, enhancing flexibility and reducing vendor lock-in.

  • Continuous Availability: Provides minimal downtime with real-time replication and seamless failover.

  • Failover from any Source to OLVM (e.g. VMWare -> OLVM, Nutanix -> OLVM, AWS -> OLVM, OCI -> OLVM etc . . .)


Conclusion


By leveraging OLVM as a DR landing zone with RackWare’s automation capabilities, enterprises can achieve an agile, cost-effective, and reliable disaster recovery strategy. This integrated solution not only enhances resilience but also aligns with modern IT transformation goals by enabling workload portability, reducing costs, and eliminating vendor dependencies.

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