Guido and I did a DR webinar a few months back, and an associated whitepaper... You can get the whitepaper at http://www.netpro.com/welcome/disasterrecovery/index.cfm. The last I looked, you had to register for it (email address, etc.)
We recorded the webinar as well. You can get to it at http://www.netpro.com/forum/files/AD_Disaster_Recovery.wmv. Same registration requirements. We are also hosting an all-day DR pre-conference workshop for DEC this year. See www.dec2006.com. -gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Kaiser Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:42 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] DR implementation planning Hi all. We are finally getting our DR project going, and I'm looking for good resources for design/implementation. We have a small business; under 100 users. Running W2K3 AD (2 DCs in one location), E2K3, Cisco Unity VM, home-grown intranet on IIS, LOB app contained in-house. Around 30 remote SOHO users connecting via VPN. Current backup consists of Backup Exec 9.x running backup-to-disk and then copies to tapes which are moved and stored offsite. I have relatively complete design authority, and am starting with a clean slate. A couple of basic parameters. We will be building the DR site in our parent company's datacenter and currently have frame circuits to their corp net (not sure if we'll have direct to the data center or not). We want to utilize HP blade servers and VMWare as much as possible. The management goal is to virtualize the entire infrastructure, although it is recognized that this may not be entirely possible. We want the DR site to be fully vendor supported, so virtualization will depend largely on vendor support. The site will be required to support ~50% of our user base for up to 30 days. We would prefer to avoid utilizing 3rd party replication apps and stick with native tools if possible. This will be a warm DR site with once-per-day replication with production; recovery within 24 hours is the goal. Losing the current day's work is acceptable. We have ~6 weeks for design and ~10 weeks after that for build/test, including fire drill. We start the design meetings today. I'm interested in pointers to any good whitepapers, references, and recommendations. Also interested in what has worked (or failed!) for others with similar criteria. While there's no shortage of information on the net about DR planning and implementation, I'm interested in what the experts here have found to be valuable. I remember DEC a couple of years ago had some great DR stuff, but my event logs have overwritten most of that by now, and I don't remember if there was a proceedings DVD or anything on that. Plus, two years is a long time; methods and the like have changed since then. Thanks! ********************** Charlie Kaiser W2K3 MCSA/MCSE/Security, CCNA Systems Engineer Essex Credit / Brickwalk 510 595 5083 ********************** List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
