Forget about traditional disaster recovery solutions. They’re costly and complex, and often can’t meet your recovery objectives even after doubling your hardware (and cost) for protected applications. Imagine being able to recover to any machine, not just specific duplicate hardware.  Hardware-independence in your data center with Omni Host, where any physical server can be the recovery target for your virtual servers, makes fast recovery the norm. Reduce your hardware costs and your maintenance budget. Even if you haven’t virtualized your production servers, virtualized target servers for your disaster recovery give you greater simplicity, reliability, and cost savings.

• Recover from disasters rapidly
• Ensure reliable disaster recovery
• Reduce the cost of disaster recovery
• Automate disaster recovery

Traditional disaster recovery plans require many manual, complex steps to allocate recovery resources, perform bare metal and data recovery, and validate that systems are ready for use.  Omni Host eliminates steps and simplifies the recovery process. 

No need to worry about whether you have the correct hardware configuration, patches, and firmware. Virtualization turns everything about a system—hardware configuration, firmware, operating system install, application install—into data stored in a few files on disk.  Protecting a complete system is just a matter of protecting a few files using your backup or replication software.  The files that make up a virtual machine can be recovered to any hardware without requiring any changes because virtual machines are hardware-independent.

Having a recovery plan is an important step, but just as important is ensuring that the plan is reliable.  Traditional recovery plans are often unreliable because they are difficult to test, difficult to keep up to date, and depend on correct execution of complex, manual recovery processes. 

Testing becomes simpler in a virtualized environment because virtualization makes it possible to execute non-disruptive tests using existing resources. Hardware independence eliminates the complexity of maintaining the recovery site by eliminating failures due to hardware differences that can otherwise creep in over time and cause costly and time-consuming complications during recovery. Virtualization also simplifies recovery procedures to eliminate failures caused by the complexity of traditional disaster recovery solutions.