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In the first post of this series I discussed the importance of establishing recovery time objectives (RTOs) for each component in your production system. In the second post I covered the comparative demands of performing triage during outages of different magnitudes; one that impacts a set of network devices versus an…
In the spirit of the year-end listing ritual, here are Top 5 web services outages in order of magnitude. * GoDaddy * Amazon Web Services (December 24) * Amazon Web Services (October 22) * Amazon Web Services (June 29) * Google App Engine (October 26) Yes, the list seems to pose the question of what’s going on with the AWS…
[Update: 20 Feb, 2019] Even though below is a working solution - I would not recommend you to do it this way, simply because at the time of writing and solving this problem - HA over WAN was not available as a feature in SolarWinds. However, you can still use below approach as an example and guidelines for your DR…
Summary: Since a number of disaster recovery strategies include Azure as a location to recover to, this document is focused on using SolarWinds Backup and its Recovery Console to keep warm standby virtual images up to date within Azure. This is a great feature for companies that wish to have their DR systems ready to go…
Following the Target Store breach last December, eBay has been the next recent victim of data theft. While Target is still dealing with the fallout from its massive data breach, eBay has asked its 128 million active users to change their passwords. One thing that both of these breaches have in common is that when they…
Hello, We are looking to perform a Disaster Recovery procedure in our preprod environement. All WPM components are installed on a single Windows 2012 server and its associated SQL Server database is hosted in a separate SQL Server cluster. We will be taking a snapshot of Windows VM and DB export before DR, just in case. In…
The network management system (NMS) is a key component of the network infrastructure which monitors your network health and identifies issues causing performance bottlenecks. This much we know already. But what will happen when the NMS is not available perhaps due to a failure in NMS implementation due to one of the…
With all the natural disasters that have been making headlines, the last thing you want to be worried about is your office's communication network. Many businesses promise 99.9% up-time and (hopefully) make plans to ensure this during disasters. However, while we make plans for off-site back up, data recovery, electric…
In a previous post I discussed the idea that making your production system optimally available requires knowing the recovery time objective (RTO) of each component. Triage of any operational issue then becomes an exercise in meeting the RTO for each impacted component and for the system overall. In this post I cover the…
Morning all, I've recently been given the task of updating our (woeful) IT disaster recovery procedures and processes, lucky man that I am . This got me thinking - it's very nice having NCM backing up every config on our network, but what happens if we need a config and NCM isn't available? Figuring that some of the very…
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