For enterprises desiring to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their disaster recovery strategy while reducing overall costs, IBM eServer™ BladeCenter® technology used in combination with Double-Take® Software solutions and virtualization technologies like VMware ESX Server provide a cost-effective, flexible solution for protecting business-critical applications and their data.
Double-Take goes beyond periodic backup to provide continuous data protection, ensuring minimal data loss and enabling immediate recovery from any disaster or system outage. As enterprises deploy blade technology to increase server density, achieve higher levels of scalability and availability, and ease systems management they require the highest level of data and application protection.
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The Ultimate Recovery Platform using Double-Take and VMware
Prior to working with Double-Take Software, if its IT systems went down, Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, NJ, would backup and restore entirely from tape. This traditional tape-only approach involved a complicated restore process and once-per-day backup. There was also high network usage during the tape backup and since the travel industry is a 24-7 business, it was difficult to find the "off hours" needed to back up a server without using excessively more CPU and I/O, resulting in overall slower performance.
Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa needed a solution that:
- Allowed for 24x7 high availability
- Provided a true, cost-effective disaster recovery solution
- Integrated seamlessly with VMware virtual machines
- Provided real-time data protection with an RPO of near-zero
- Provided both manual as well as hands-free failover
Double-Take Software, VMware and Champion Solutions Group Meet the Requirements
Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa chose Double-Take® from Double-Take Software due to its flexibility in different architectures, its seamless failover process, and the company's solid relationship with VMware. Working with Double-Take Software, solutions integrator Champion Solutions Group and VMware, Borgata is able to create cost-effective, simplified disaster recovery architectures, provide 24x7 application availability, and follow their daily contingency plan.
When evaluating disaster recovery and failover solutions, Borgata was also concerned about the Recovery Point Objective (RPO). RPO is the target a company establishes for acceptable data loss when recovering from a disaster or outage. Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa required a RPO of approximately zero, and only real-time data replication solutions like Double-Take allow a company to achieve that level of data protection.
How It All Works
VMware virtual machines enable Double-Take to replicate application data from multiple production servers to a single disaster recovery target and failover to the disaster recovery target in the event of an outage. Borgata has 77 virtual machine sessions on six VMware® ESX Servers which Double-Take is used to replicate data, meeting the requirements of their challenging high availability and disaster recovery needs.
Using VMware virtualization, Double-Take can provide failover for all of these servers to one physical machine. The target server (running VMware ESX Server) is configured with four virtual machines - each running the appropriate Windows OS version and application version.
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