Disaster Recovery on Azure: 5-Week Assessment

A five-week disaster recovery on Azure assessment that provides visibility into application dependencies, the cost of your Azure environment, and an actionable failover runbook to ensure your assets are optimally protected.

As a part of the disaster recovery assessment, TierPoint will conduct a discovery and review of your infrastructure, operations, and current DR capabilities in order to maximize the benefits and use of Azure Site Recovery. Assessment activities will include the review of existing internal documentation, questionnaires, and interviews with key internal stakeholders to understand issues, expected outcomes, and appropriate recovery expectations.

A review of current DR design and organizational process will be performed to identify any gaps that might cause issues during a DR test or live DR event. Discovery will also include deploying an automated discovery tool to map out network traffic, collect resource utilization, and application dependencies. TierPoint will define and document what is required for partial and full site failovers for both DR tests and live DR events.

Disaster Recovery on Azure: 5-Week Assessment:

Objectives:

• Understand and establish workload priority and timing for protection
• Identification of failover/protection groups
• Design a seamless failover plan
• Evaluate and determine the proper use of Azure Site Recovery

Analysis:

• Device and workload review
• Workload dependencies
• Current state performance mapped to desired failover/protection groups
• Suitable use cases for Azure Site Recovery

Deliverables:

• Automated Device Inventory
• Application Dependency Map
• Workload Failover Plan
• DR Runbook
• Azure Site Recovery and Infrastructure Documentation

Agenda

• Week 1: Initiation, Discovery, and Validation
• Week 2: Application Review and Classification
• Week 3-4: Disaster Recovery Design and Planning
• Week 5: Customer Enablement and Final Review

TierPoint is a nationally recognized DRaaS provider, and can help you meet industry-specific regulations, as well as strict data retention and uptime requirements. We help over 1,500 companies with their disaster recovery plans, protecting over 20,000 VMs, and have been recognized 2-years in row as “MSP of the Year” by DRaaS leader Zerto.