Recovery Maturity Model (RMM) for readiness-based control of disaster recovery testing

摘要

A Recovery Maturity Model (RMM) is used to determine whether a particular Information Technology (IT) production environment can be expected, with some level of confidence, to successfully execute a test for disaster recovery (DR). The RMM provides a quantitative analysis in terms of the extent to which best practices are seen to have been implemented as a set of categories for elements of the environment and multiple elements for each category. A summation of the scoring elements, which may be a weighted summation, results in an overall quantitative metric which is then used to control whether or not testing will proceed.

主权项

1. A method for determining disaster recovery readiness for a data processing environment which includes one or more physical and/or virtual data processing infrastructure elements, and where a disaster recovery (DR) service is capable of providing disaster recovery for the infrastructure elements, the method comprising:
a. storing information in a Recovery Maturity Model (RMM) representing one or more criteria indicative of expected successful DR test execution based on best practices, the RMM further comprising a model associating infrastructure element types with recovery maturity elements, wherein the infrastructure element types include an application type, recovery backup technology, a network type, physical machines operating system(s), virtual machines operating system(s), and physical processor type, and the recovery maturity elements comprise at least a recovery configuration completed, recovery backup assessment, recovery strategy defined, recovery procedure developed, DR kit completeness, Recovery Time Objective achievable, Recovery Point Objective achievable, and knowledge transfer completed; b. accepting data, via a user interface, representing one or more evaluations of one or more of the criteria specified in the RMM, where the user interface accepts the evaluations as a numerical score for each infrastructure element type and each further recovery maturity element, to thereby determine a matrix of numerical scores; c. determining if the environment is ready for DR testing by comparing one or more of the evaluation(s) to predetermined information; and d. if the environment is determined to be ready for DR testing, enabling at least one DR test for execution.