We have GEO clustering in-place and I want to perform DR test.

Please advise, what wil lbe involve?

Do I have to change the settings in LUN, etc.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks

I have been using Platespin (now owned by Novell) for many years now, but not as a DR solution, but to migrate physical servers to virtual (P2V). Platespin Protect would be the best product for DR replication, but I think it can be quite expensive. Unless it has changed, it is licensed per workload (i.e per server that you want to replicate / protect).

It’s a perfectly viable option for DR, and well suited to virtual machines. In terms of technology it works in the same way a P2V migration does, except it leaves the secondary DR copy switched off ready for a DR scenario.

Certainly worth a further look if you don’t have SAN replication.

Ray

I am still investigating a solution and have found Novell’s Platespin.

Any thoughts?

Many thanks

Ian

If you are looking for a software SAN solution that you can ‘bolt-on’ to your existing storage then I’d recommend looking at either Datacore or Lefhand Networks (now HP). Later this year, Datacore should be releasing SANsymphony-V which is a combination of their previous two products SANmelody and SANsymphony.

The Lefthand solution by HP worth looking at is the P4000 VSA (Virtual SAN Appliance). This product is fairly new to me, but given the choice of the two I am tempted to opt for the P4000. That is just based on my past experience of Datacore, but at the end of the day it might just come down to cost / scalability.

Check out their websites here:

Datacore

HP Lefthand P4000 VSA

Ray