Top 10 Recovery as-a-Service Questions Answered

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TOP 10
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QUESTIONS

How We Ended Up with These Questions
• Based on field experience with prospects
and customers
• Based on questions asked in previous
RaaS webinars
• We’ve put together 9 questions, but are
leaving the 10th up to today’s audience
– Submit your questions via the chat
or Q&A panel

“What is RaaS?”
Better Backup or Better DR
• Depends on what kind of experience you
want and where you want to spend your
time…
Backups require more work
in the setup and in the event
of a disaster, if you’re relying
on it for your DR protection

Backups and RaaS Comparison
Backup Type
Compare
to RaaS
Risk Impact Value
Local Backup
Remote
Backup
Weather
Days to
Weeks of
Downtime
Geo
protection
File-level Backup
Hypervisor
or
Replication
Data
Corruption
Hours to
Days of
Downtime
Application
Protection
Tape-based Backup
Continuous
Data
Protection
(CDP)
Data
Corruption
Data Loss
Minimize
Data Loss

“What is the Difference Between Backup
to the Cloud and RaaS?”
• I/O and compute
• RTO
• VMs versus file backup
• Can I have my backups
go to the same location
as my RaaS?

“How Do I Protect Physical / Legacy
or Non-Virtualized Systems?”
• Virtualize it?
• Agent-based replication into a VM target
• Application level replication
(log shipping or MS-SQL
availability groups)
• Or physical assets stored
in colocation space

“Are There Size or Data Limitations with RaaS?”
• Is my environment too small or too large?
• What are the VM or storage limitations
within a single Virtual Protection Group?
• Sizes that fit Bluelock RaaS:
– Example 1 VM with 250MB
– Example 20 VMs with 2TB
– Example 180 VMs with 6TB

“How Do I Initially Transfer My Data to the Cloud?”
• Data seeding
– CDP
– Media (secure courier)
• Initial replication
networking setup
– Bandwidth requirements
for continuous data
protection
– Security
– Connectivity options including
Dynamic networks
• Dynamic networking

“How Do I Manage the Network for RaaS?”
• Full bandwidth “on demand”
at time of failover
• End-user connectivity
upon declaration
• IP addressing and DNS

“What’s Automated and What’s Not?”
• Keep it simple
• Which configs get passed over from the production site?
– In VM configuration data
– Meta VM configuration
– vCD versus vSphere
• Are firewall rules replicated?
• Networking options
– Same subnets (public and private), leverage NAT on the edge,
best for whole datacenter outage
– Different subnets (public and private), best when there are partial
outages or when private links are involved
• Public IP addresses

“How Do I Manage RPO and RTO Configurations?”
• Lowest possible configurations
• Snapshots vs CDP
• When and why would you need different
configurations
• How far back can I go in the journal?
– Limitations of amount stored?
– Does interval depend on I/O load?
– Does small RTO impact client VM IO performance?
– Is there history consolidation?
– Retention options

“What Happens During Failover and Failback?”
• Is the solution bidirectional?
• Can I bring up my recovery VM
without vCenter online at primary site?
• What happens if a server
outage occurs during failover?
• Does the network connection
remain in place after a failover?

Question 10 From the Audience

Application Recovery Assessment
• Would you like to complimentary
Application Recovery Assessment?
– Weigh the risk level of your 1-3 applications
against the value of the cost of continuity
• Visit www.bluelock.com/raas
to request your assessment

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