Disaster Recovery to IBM VPC: RackWare DR Setup Demo
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This demo shows how to build a complete disaster recovery landing zone in IBM VPC using the RackWare engine, protecting source workloads across VMware, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and other IBM VPC regions into a single DR target.
The walkthrough covers the full workflow: deploying the RackWare engine from the IBM Cloud Marketplace, discovering and adding source hosts, and running an initial stage-one sync to seed target storage. It demonstrates two DR configurations side by side: cold storage protection (data-only, no running resources), and hot active DR (a continuously synced standby host ready for immediate failover).
From there, the video sets up RPO/RTO policies with configurable sync frequency (down to continuous sync), tag-based host grouping for policy assignment at scale, and retention policies for point-in-time snapshot backup and restore, including hourly and daily retention windows and individual file/folder recovery. It closes with a live failover: triggering a full failover group, provisioning target VSIs from stored images, and validating that a running database application comes back online in IBM VPC.
See how RackWare handles multi-source disaster recovery - VMware, KVM, Oracle OCI, AWS, and on-prem - into IBM VPC with configurable boot ordering, failover groups, and granular restore options.
More Information:
Solution Brief "Replacing Zerto for VMware Exit: RackWare DR on IBM Cloud VPC"
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