Use Case: Automated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Name: Automated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Contact: George Reese, O'Reilly
• Type of Organization: Publisher
• Description: Maintain up-to-date remote shadows of physical and/or virtual machines, such that in the event of a disaster it is possible to start and switch to the remote machines.
• URL: Using the Cloud for Disaster Recovery
• Functional Requirements
  • VM Description: Metadata mapping to legacy systems
  • VM Management: Automated management in the event of a disaster (e.g. startup, IP changes).
  • Network Management: Runtime alteration of IPs
  • Image Management: Advanced, rsync style updates to synchronise machines with physical equivalents (e.g. rsync block devices to remote raw disk files).
• Non-functional Requirements
  • Quality of Service: Reservation of capacity sufficient for failover