Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers

"Protect your data better, gain higher availability, and stay within your budget with this practical guide that covers data centers of all sizes. Focusing on Windows server environments, it explores a range of "good, better, best" options and presents best practices for backup, availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity." Learn how to build a plan based on how you want to recover data-instead of how you want to protect it---and discover a wide range of technologies that you may already have to help you achieve your protection, availability, and recovery goals. "Essential information on how to protect data in virtual environments! Virtualization is changing the data center architecture and as a result, data protection is is quickly evolving as well. This unique book, written by an industry expert with over eighteen years of data storage/backup experience, shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data in a virtualized environment. You'll get up to speed on data protection problems, explore the data protection technologies available today, see how to adapt to virtualization, and more. The book uses a "good, better, best" approach, exploring best practices for backup, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and more. Covers best practices and essential information on protecting data in virtualized enterprise environmentsShows you how to approach, protect, and manage data while also meeting such challenges as return on investment, existing service level agreements (SLAs), and more Helps system and design architects understand data protection issues and technologies in advance, so they can design systems to meet the challengesExplains how to make absolutely critical services such as file services and e-mail more available without sacrificing protectionOffers best practices and solutions for backup, availability, disaster recovery, and othersThis is a must-have guide for any Windows server and application administrator who is charged with data recovery and maintaining higher uptimes"-- Provided by publisher Essential information on how to protect data in virtual environments! Virtualization is changing the data center architecture and as a result, data protection is is quickly evolving as well. This unique book, written by an industry expert with over eighteen years of data storage/backup experience, shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data in a virtualized environment. You'll get up to speed on data protection problems, explore the data protection technologies available today, see how to adapt to virtualization, and more. The book uses a "good, better, best" approach, exploring best practices for backup, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and more. * Covers best practices and essential information on protecting data in virtualized enterprise environments * Shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data while also meeting such challenges as return on investment, existing service level agreements (SLAs), and more * Helps system and design architects understand data protection issues and technologies in advance, so they can design systems to meet the challenges * Explains how to make absolutely critical services such as file services and e-mail more available without sacrificing protection * Offers best practices and solutions for backup, availability, disaster recovery, and others This is a must-have guide for any Windows server and application administrator who is charged with data recovery and maintaining higher uptimes. Chapter 11: Monitoring Systems; The Need for Monitoring; Challenges in Monitoring; Enterprise End-to-End Monitoring; Monitoring the Health and Performance of Key Workloads; Monitoring in Midsized Organizations Using System Center Essentials; Summary; Chapter 12: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery; What Makes BC and DR So Special?; Get Your Data Out of the Building; BC = DR + HA; BC/DR Solution Alternatives; Using Virtualization to Achieve Business Continuity; Planning for BC/DR to Get Better Backups and Availability; Summary; Appendix: Links and Resources; Microsoft Software What kind of protection do you need? Data protection by the numbers The layers of data protection Better backups File services Windows clustering Microsoft exchange Microsoft SQL server Virtualization Management and deployment Monitoring systems Business continuity and disaster recovery.