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Tony Ansley

December 09, 2024

When disaster strikes, how prepared are you to recover quickly? Disaster recovery can be daunting, especially when you're managing hundreds or thousands of virtual machines (VMs) across multiple vCenter clusters. Common disaster recovery challenges include:

  • Complexity. Building a plan for infrastructures spread across on-premises and cloud environments can get very overwhelming, very fast.
  • Resource intensiveness. Managing disaster recovery often requires additional hardware and licensing…and budget.
  • Reliability. When it matters most, you need your plan to work. Otherwise, you're looking at serious downtime and disruption to your operations.

Tackling disaster recovery challenges

You're not in this alone. Meet NetApp® BlueXP™ disaster recovery, a powerful solution designed to protect your data and keep your business running. It's the perfect tool to help you tackle the challenges of complexity, resource intensiveness, and reliability:

  • BlueXP simplifies building a disaster recovery plan with template-based workflows and streamlined management-all with just a few clicks.
  • The BlueXP replication service efficiently replicates data, reducing resource needs at your disaster recovery site.
  • · BlueXP enables automated, nondisruptive test failovers, so you can be confident that your recovery plan works when it matters most.

What makes BlueXP disaster recovery different?

Not only does BlueXP provide reliability and simplicity, but it's also cost-effective. Unlike other solutions, BlueXP only charges based on storage consumption-not by the number of VMs or vCenter clusters-making it an affordable solution for any business. From automating replication plans to enabling fast failovers, this tool simplifies disaster recovery like never before.

Watch the following video to see how BlueXP disaster recovery makes it easy to:

  • Control and protect your VMs with just a few clicks
  • Have confidence that your disaster recovery plan actually works-with no disruptions to production
  • Get peace of mind with continuous health monitoring and application-aware protection for key databases like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server

Architect resilience with NetApp

To learn more about BlueXP disaster recovery, check out our solution page. And to dive deeper into our video series and learn how to architect true cyber resilience, binge the rest of our series playlist.

Tony Ansley

Tony Ansley is a senior technical marketing engineer focusing on data protection services for NetApp. Tony has spent over 35 years in the enterprise technology industry, from client to data center. He has supported enterprise customers in designing and implementing solutions, with the last 20 years focused on enterprise storage solutions using a variety of vendors and technologies. Tony joined NetApp in 2022 to focus on growing the NetApp data protection offerings.

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