Background

According to Gartner, two-fifths of companies that experienced a major disaster that caused a system outage never resumed operations, and one-third of the remaining companies went bankrupt within two years. Business continuity matters, especially in the digital age, people have more ways to access businesses than ever before and the requirement of service continuity is more stringent than ever. However, things unexpected happen all the time, physical machine will fail eventually, business owners urgently need a comprehensive disaster recovery solution that can protect their business across on-premise and off-premise environments.

Sangfor disaster recovery management (DRM) solution includes active-passive disaster recovery and active-active stretched cluster solution for homogeneous environment and heterogeneous environments.

Background - Sangfor Disaster Recovery Management (DRM)

Sangfor DR Solution Architecture

Heterogeneous DR Solution Architecture 

Sangfor heterogeneous DR is a new solution designed for heterogeneous DR and cloud DR, providing comprehensive protection for customers. The main goal is to enhance the disaster recovery and backup capabilities of heterogeneous platforms besides Sangfor’s own homogeneous DR solution between hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) or managed cloud service (MCS). 

 

Sangfor DR for Heterogeneous Environments Working Diagram

Capabilities

Sangfor DRM provides a full range of disaster recovery solutions based on customer’s business RTO and RPO requirements. It is simple, resilient, easy to deploy and manage.  

For disaster recovery solutions between Sangfor HCI or MCS,

Solution RPO RTO Bandwidth Distance
Local HA 0 30s 1 Gbps mgmt. N/A
Disasterrecovery Min. 1s Mins Based on RPO and IO speed No limitation
Stretched cluster 0 30s 1 Gbps fiber / 10 Gbps fiber, RTT<=5ms <=50km

For disaster recovery solution between 3rd party platforms and Sangfor cloud (HCI or MCS),

Critical Business – CDP Hot Standby DR  Important Business – VM Synchronization DR  Secondary Business – Quick Recovery DR 
  • Use CDP to realize real-time synchronization
  • DR Site in hot-standby mode
  • One-click switch to enable backup server
  • Realize RPO=0, switch in 1 minute
  • Use CDP to transmit data from production site to DR site with real-time or scheduled mode
  • DR site in shutdown mode, during DR, it will pullup DR VM and ta over the business
  • Realize RPO=O, switch in 5 minutes
  • Real-time/scheduled backup to HCI resource pool to support rapid reconstruction and recovery of TB-level data 
  • Recover data to HCI when disaster happens
  • Realize RPO=0, switch in 30 minutes
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Use Cases

Homogeneous DR Solution

  • Active-passive disaster recovery between HCI and MCS  
  • Active-active business continuity between HCI 

Homogeneous DR Solution

Heterogeneous DR Solution

DR for heterogeneous environments between 3rd party virtualization platforms (such as VMware, Hyper-v and KVM) as well as physical servers and Sangfor Cloud.  

Heterogeneous DR Solution

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