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By Inmage

Server virtualization technology is here to stay. The Gartner Group predicts that by 2012, over 85% of enterprises will be using it extensively in production environments. Recent enhancements to popular server virtualization platforms are making them more and more viable for mission-critical applications. As enterprises consider moving their mission-critical applications into virtual server environments, recovery capabilities are an important concern.

Recovery has several facets which must be explored. When it comes to protecting data, there are backup and restore capabilities designed to meet daily operational requirements and data distribution capabilities for disaster recovery. Common concerns in data recovery include the production impacts of data protection operations (e.g. backup windows, overhead, etc.), recovery point objectives (data loss on recovery), recovery time objectives (how fast can recoveries occur), and recovery reliability (am I always able to recover when I need to).

But recovery capabilities must go beyond just data – they must also include application recovery designed to restore the application services that meet end users' business requirements. Generally, enterprises are using one set of tools to protect and restore data, and another set of processes and/or tools to perform application recoveries. If mission-critical applications are running in virtual server environments, then recovery tools need to be able to meet very stringent recovery requirements for both data and applications.

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