In order to ensure that customers can be operational and have their critical applications up and running within agreed-upon timeframes, Consonus has developed a Virtual Business Continuity recovery methodology deployed when customers declare a disaster. The following are the major components of this VBC methodology:
- Restore and attach or redirect replicated data to the recovery infrastructure
- Bring the recovery infrastructure up to an operational state. The recovery infrastructure will include servers, storage, switches, firewalls, and Internet connectivity. A key component of making the recovery infrastructure operational is the loading of the various application operating systems onto the designated servers.
- Enable end user access to the disaster recovery environment
- Provide operational support for the recovery infrastructure
- Failback to the new production environment when appropriate
The primary goal of the VBC methodology is to limit customer involvement in the recovery and failback processes and to ensure meeting defined Recovery Time Objectives according to the business continuity template.