Provide an appliance like test vehicle for IT disaster recovery

摘要

A high availability/disaster recovery appliance test vehicle that contains a preconfigured high availability/disaster recovery solution for quick implementation at a test environment. The hardware and software components may be preconfigured with test applications and data and all the necessary networking, SAN and operating system requirements. This single shippable rack can be used to certify a multi site high availability/disaster recovery architecture that supports both local and site failover and site to site data replication. The unit is plug and play which reduces the effort required to begin the evaluation and reduces the number of IT teams that need to be involved. An apparatus and method for implementing the above high availability/disaster recovery vehicle are provided.

主权项

1. A mobile apparatus for simulated disaster recovery testing in a distributed computing environment at a physical test environment, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of servers configured as a high availability cluster, a first server simulating a first simulated geographical site, the first server assigned the role of primary server and a second server simulating a second geographical site, the second server designated a backup server to the primary server wherein the plurality of servers is preconfigured with test applications and data prior to delivery to the test environment; a high availability module configured to:
assign the role of primary server to the first server and the role of backup server to the second server;monitor the health of the entire two site high availability cluster including resources including at least one of networks, disks, IP addresses and applications;effect data synchronization between the first server and the backup server;detect failure of the primary server;responsive to detecting failure of the primary server, perform failover from the primary server to the backup server; and an electronic Storage Area Network (SAN) configured to communicate with the first and second servers wherein the failover module controls bidirectional data replication between separate storage units associated with the first and second server, wherein the storage area network is preconfigured with test applications and data prior to delivery to the test environment.