VMware vCloud Hybrid Service- Disaster Recovery [ A Public Cloud DRaaS ]
Rajkumar Selvaraj
Real time disaster recovery is typically thought of as a Premium service that only larger businesses can afford. But VMware’s newest offering, vCloud Hybrid Service Disaster Recovery (vCHS-DR) will help small companies to avail the robust disaster recovery features of VMware’s solution in a cost effective ways.
vCHS-DR allows customers running VMware vSphere to make live replicas of their running servers to one of VMware’s public vCloud Hybrid Service data centers.
When a local instance fails, the cloud instance starts with no involvement of the IT admin. Recovery points could be as little as 15 minutes or as long as 24 hours.
Pricing starts at $835 per month, includes 10GHz vCPU and 20GB of vRAM with 1TB of storage (in a multi-tenant configuration), with add-on services.
If the data is large to replicate, new subscribers can mail VMware one or more hard drives with up to 11TB of data — and allow automatic synchronization after that.