Tag: Disaster recovery
Disaster Recovery
How to Write a DR and Backup RFP: 40 Questions to Ask Zerto, Veeam and VMware Live Site Recovery Vendors
A practical guide to writing a disaster recovery and backup RFP for a VMware estate, with 40 questions to ask Zerto, Veeam and VMware Live Site Recovery vendors, an example scoring model and the mistakes to avoid.
Disaster Recovery
Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) for SMBs: Requirements, Tests and Cost Traps
What a small or mid-sized business actually needs from backup and disaster recovery, how to prove it works, and the pricing structures that surprise people later.
VMware
VMware Live Site Recovery vs Zerto vs Veeam: Comparing DR Options for On-Premises VMware Workloads
Comparing the main DR options for VMware estates by architecture and recovery outcomes rather than by feature count, plus how to run a defensible evaluation.
VMware
The VMware Live Site Recovery Checklist: 68 Checks for Design, Deployment, Testing and Failover
A working checklist of 68 checks across objectives, design, deployment, protection groups, recovery plans, mappings, test failover, invocation and failback.
VMware
Designing and Deploying VMware Live Site Recovery: Architecture, Replication and Recovery Plans
Topology, replication selection, sizing, protection group structure, recovery plan design and the inventory mappings that decide whether a failover actually works.
VMware
SRM vs VMware Live Site Recovery: Feature Parity, What Changed and What Is New
A side-by-side assessment of Site Recovery Manager 8.x against VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0.x: what carried over unchanged, what improved and what is genuinely new.
VMware
VMware Site Recovery Manager to VMware Live Site Recovery: The Complete Guide
What the SRM rebrand actually changed, how VMware Live Site Recovery fits into VMware Live Recovery, and what it means for a DR estate built on Site Recovery Manager.
Disaster Recovery
DRaaS vs Traditional Backup: Choosing the Right Business Continuity Plan
Backup and disaster recovery solve different problems. How DRaaS, replication and traditional backup compare on RPO, RTO, cost and testing.
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery Terms to Know in Business
A plain-English glossary of the terms that appear in disaster recovery plans, supplier contracts and audit questions.