Technical Overview © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009.

Technical Overview

www.planbdr.co.uk © Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009

© Plan B Disaster Recovery Plc 2009

About

www.planbdr.co.uk

Plan B is a specialist IT Disaster Recovery business based in the UK with operations in the UK and US, protecting servers in the UK, mainland Europe and the US.

We provide the only simple, affordable disaster recovery service guaranteed to immediately recover working IT servers and infrastructure.

• In a past life, we used to produce MANY quotes for DR• Cut the Margin to the bone• Was STILL too expensive• So customers decided to compromise their

requirement


Why go and Create Plan B?

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• Take regular (nightly) copies of people’s machines• Convert the copies to run on our environment• Make a platform available to operate these systems

during disasters• Make it work every time• Make it cost-effective

Overall Principle


Plan B Disaster Recovery Service

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Take System Snapshots of

protected servers

In emergency:Provide instant guaranteed

recovery of complete working server sets on remote platform

Make work on remote virtualisation

platform


Plan B Disaster Recovery Service

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A Plan B appliance snapshots customer’s servers nightly

Snapshots are encrypted and sent off-site to the Plan B Recovery Platform

On the Recovery Platform, the snapshots are automatically converted to run in a virtual machine then booted up and tested

Recovery servers are therefore immediately available on the remote recovery platform – literally as quickly as they take to boot

Customers can access their recovered systems within minutes from any Internet connection

• ‘The Magic Bit’• Calculate differences between snapshot storage and

frozen host• Make updates to frozen host• Apply ‘Overlays’ to perform P2V conversion, network

changes, application-specific tweaks, and to deploy test harness

• Queue frozen host for testing

ConversionConversion

• Static• P2V• Test Harnesses• A/D Recovery• Application Specific Changes

• Dynamic• Network Re-Addressing• Host file mangling• Metabase changing• Exchange Reconfiguration


Example Overlays

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• All snapshots tested, every time• In a combined Architecture with it’s peers


Test Behaviour

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Process Diagram

• One click invocation• Systems available in the time it takes them to

boot• Recent Recovery Point - data typically

available from last night

Plan B Recovery Platform

• Adaptive Networking• Network devices reconfigured on demand

• Service Redirection• DNS and MX configuration as well

• Vmware DRS• Handles load-balancing inside the environment


Dynamic Platform

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• Web Accessible Systems• Simply over the internet, to the customer’s users

• Internal Systems• SSL VPN• IPSec VPN for site-to-site

Access to Systems

• Minimum IT down-time – Minimum disruption• Handle IT disaster rather than be subject to it• Simple to set up and live with• Guaranteed recovery within minutes• Recovery independent of the IT Team• Very cost effective


Benefits of the Plan B service

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