Whats virtualization and how does it benefit disaster preparedness?
Virtualization, as it relates to disaster recovery, is about simplifying the disaster recovery infrastructure requirements and reducing costs through eliminating the need for redundant hardware. You can think of virtualization as making a single physical device (such as a storage device, server or operating system) appear to function as multiple logical resources or making multiple physical resources (such as storage devices and servers) appear as a single logical resource. Virtualization is a concept in which a company can create a storage facility that contains several disk subsystems (from individual or multiple vendors) that’s geographically in another location, if desired. Within this storage facility, the storage equipment is split or partitioned, into virtual disks that are visible to the networks or systems that use them. In implementations where virtualization is not in use, maintaining dual configurations at the production and recovery sites is the best and safest practice. C
