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Disaster Recovery Presentation

The agency built a Disaster Recovery Center with capacity to support all critical applications. The Recovery Center located in OB2 supports systems like Active Directory, Citrix, SIMBA and more according to priority. Steps to set up the Recovery Center included server justification, virtualization, cloning VMs to the Center, testing, and setting update routines. The agency virtualized 76% of servers reducing costs and improving recovery times. Testing showed Exchange, databases and other systems could failover to the Recovery Center in a disaster.

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Disaster Recovery Presentation

The agency built a Disaster Recovery Center with capacity to support all critical applications. The Recovery Center located in OB2 supports systems like Active Directory, Citrix, SIMBA and more according to priority. Steps to set up the Recovery Center included server justification, virtualization, cloning VMs to the Center, testing, and setting update routines. The agency virtualized 76% of servers reducing costs and improving recovery times. Testing showed Exchange, databases and other systems could failover to the Recovery Center in a disaster.

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Business Continuity and

the Disaster Recovery Center


The agencys goal was to build a Disaster
Recovery Center with sufficient capacity to
support all OIC mission critical applications.
The OIC IT Disaster Recovery site located
in OB2 supports the OIC Disaster Recovery
Center.

DR capability has been provided for the


following systems in priority order :
Priority 1: By the next business day
Active Directory
Citrix (30 active connections)
SIMBA (including data manager, document repository
and credit card web service)
CATS
Email/Web Email
Employee files and data
Internet access (NAIC, SERFF, HRISD, I-Site,
HRMS)

DR capability by priority order


continued:
Priority 2: Within 5 business days (or as servers
are provisioned)
Image document retrieval (retrieval of existing images
only)
SourceSafe/Build Machine
Teammate
Antivirus (WUS/SUS), Spam filter, PC Help
HCIS, online filing search, LAA, Annual Reports and
Contribute
Citrix (100+ active connections)

Priority 3: Within 31 days (or as servers and


facilities are provisioned)
Imaging scanning and indexing

Steps included in setting up the


OIC Disaster Recovery Center

Server Justification and Consolidation


Server Virtualization
Clone Virtual Machines to DR Center
Test the Disaster Recovery Center
Set up DR Center update routines and
procedures
Decommission Physical Servers

Server Virtualization
Converting Physical Servers to Virtual Machines

Benefits of Virtualization

Reduce hardware costs


Reduce maintenance costs
Reduce energy costs
Reduce the time it takes to provision new
servers
Reduce the time it takes to restore a
server during a disaster
Reduce server management time

The OIC uses a Cluster of Virtual Machine Hosts


to provide high availability for the Virtual Machines
and maximize host utilization

The OIC Production Cluster


3 Hosts running 43 Virtual Machines

OIC Disaster Recovery Center


3 Hosts running 58 Virtual Machines

Clone Virtual Machines to DR Center


The Virtual Machines that are used for
Production have been copied to the Disaster
Recovery Center.
The rest of the Physical Servers that are used
for Production have been converted to Virtual
Machines and copied to the Disaster Recovery
Center.

Updates to these servers are also copied to the


Disaster Recovery Center.

Virtual Machine use at the OIC


Disaster Recovery Center
Some of the Virtual Machines at the DR site are
used for Application Development and User
Approval Testing.
Other Virtual Machines are on all of the time so
we can copy current data to the Disaster
Recovery Center
SQL databases are mirrored or backed up to the DR site.
Exchange and the File servers are mirrored with HP Storage
Works

The rest of the Virtual Machines will only be


turned on again when they are needed.

Testing the Disaster Recovery Center


All of the DR systems were tested and re-tested
as they were created.
Exchange failover, database failover, document
recovery and image retrieval were all tested
during several weekends.
During a planned upgrade of our core production
application, SIMBA, the DR Center was used for
read only access.
We continue to use the Virtual Machines to test
planned upgrades to our production systems.

Results of the OIC Virtualization


We have 31 physical servers.
23 at 5000 Capitol Boulevard, 5 at the DR/DEV site and 3 more in Seattle, SIU and the
Capitol Campus.
There are 100 virtual servers.
42 at 5000 Capitol Boulevard and 58 at the DR/DEV site.
Total Number of Servers 131

Virtualized 100

Percent Virtualized 76%

We also plan to virtualize 9 more of the physical servers at 5000 Capitol Boulevard in
2010. (We will need 1 more physical server to host the additional virtual servers)
We will then have 23 physical servers.
15 at 5000 Capitol Boulevard, 5 at the DR/DEV site and 3 more in Seattle, SIU and the
Capitol Campus.
There will be around 109 virtual servers.
51 at 5000 Capitol Boulevard and 58 at the DR/DEV site.

Total Number of Servers 132

Virtualized 109

Percent Virtualized 83%

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