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Business continuity solutions for a production environment with the VMware virtualization platform are not overly complicated. Dell SRDF can be used as the mechanism to replicate data from the production data center to the remote data center. This mechanism can be used in addition to, or in place of, a tape-based disaster recovery solution. The copy of the data in the remote data center can be presented to a VMware ESXi cluster. The vSphere environment at the remote data center thus provides a business continuity solution.
Dell replication technologies can generate a restartable or recoverable copy of the data. The difference between the two types of copies can be confusing. A clear understanding of the differences is critical to ensure that the recovery goals for a vSphere environment can be met.