With PlateSpin Forge, organizations cna protect workloads across geographically-dispersed sites and rapidly recover in the event of server downtime or a site disaster. By using PlateSpin Forge as a consolidated recoery platform, organizations can better protect a larger percentage of workloads without having to invest in costly duplicate hardware or redundant operating system licenses. In addition to standard file-based replication, high-speed block-level replication options allow enterprise customers to protect high transactional workloads, such as email and database servers. Efficient incremental transfers ensure that only changes to source data files are replicated to the PlateSpin Forge remote recovery environment, minimizing WAN usage and enabling organizations to efficiently meet recovery point objectives (RPO) with minimal data loss. PlateSpin Forge also integrates with existing storage area networks, allowing enterprises to seamlessly protect a greater share of workloads across the SAN.
Quickly and easily test the integrity of disaster recovery plans and processes.
Experts recommend that recovery solutions should be tested at least every six to twelv months. Despite its importance, regular testing is often overlooked because the complexity of traditional recovery infrastuuctures makes testing onerous. Test Time Objective (TTO), or the speed and ease with which a recovery plan can be tested, is emerging as a key measure of ecovery effectiveness. PlateSpin Forge enables one-click test recovery, allowing users to easily and rapidly test the integrity of the replication and recofery plan. To perform a test failover, PlatePsin Forge takes a snapshot of the recovery workload and powers it on within a "fenced off" private internal network. This allows the user to quickly validate the recovery p;an and related business services with no disruption to the production workload. Once the disaster recovery paln has been validated, PlateSpin Forge drops any changes that have occurred on the recovery workload snapshot during the testing process and resumes workload replication.
Take control with rich monitoring, reporting and actionable alerts.
The PlateSpin Forge Web-baseed interface provides an ever-present dashboard that enables IT operations specialists to view the status of their protection plans at all times and manage, monitor and report on all aspects of workload protection. In the event of production server downtime or a disaster, administrators are automatically alerted via email. Notification messages enable context-sensitive actions that can be performed simply by clicking a link within the email from a PC, Blackberry or other mobile device. Rich reporting features enable administrators and business owners to gain a clear picture of how protection resources are being used. Users can report on actual versus target recovery time and recofery point objectives (RTO and RPO), replication windows and data transfer rates. Protction logs demonstrate successful replication and recovery tests, providing the audit capabilities required to meet defined service level agreements or regulatory compliance.
Rapidly recover workloads with one-click failover and flexible restore options
In the event of a production server outage or disaster, protected workloads can be rapidly recovered on a per-workload basis with single-click failover - just reconnect sessions and PlateSpin Forge takes over the workload. The workload can continue to run as normal on the PlateSpin Forge recovery appliance while the production environment is restored. Once the production environment is brought back online, PlateSpin Forge offers flexible options for restoring workloads. In the original production server is repaired and the hardware is intact, users can move the workload from the virtual recofery environment back to the original platform by performing a virtual-to-physical (V2P) workload transfer. If the original hardware cannot be repaired, users can restore the workload with a V2P transfer onto new hardware. Workloads can also be easily moved to a production virtual environment. Flexible, hardware-independent restore means that new hardware may be of a dissimilar make, model or configuration. Organizaionts have the flexibility to select multiple recovery points so that workloads can be rolled back to any of a number of available recovery states.