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Preplan, Drill, Unified Management

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Disaster Recovery Resource Management and Monitoring;

Visual Process Orchestration;

Disaster Recovery Switch Execution Process, Automatic Switch;

Disaster Recovery Resources Can Be Archived, Large Screen Display of Processes

Solution Background

At this stage, many enterprises or companies are experiencing continuous growth in business data, an increasing number of information systems, and increasingly complex IT information construction. Many enterprises or companies have partial disaster recovery capabilities, but there are few platforms dedicated to disaster recovery management for building an enterprise-level disaster recovery system. They lack streamlined business switching processes, large-screen command centers, and visual operations.

Disaster recovery management often encounters the following issues: Firstly, disaster recovery switch preplans are difficult to create, lack unified standards, have high maintenance costs, and cannot guarantee effectiveness. Secondly, there are issues with disaster recovery drills. Due to the lack of platform support, the drill process lacks intuitive displays, leading to high costs, long preparation times, and difficult sustainability of success. Thirdly, there are organizational issues for disaster recovery personnel. The personnel involved are extensive, and personnel and organizational management are difficult, lacking effective management tools and response processes. Fourthly, disaster recovery cannot be controlled, lacking a unified management view, making it difficult to fully grasp potential situations. Fifthly, RTO (Recovery Time Objective) cannot be guaranteed. There are numerous disaster recovery objects, making management challenging, system relationships complex, and numerous operational management commands. Sixthly, switch success rates cannot be guaranteed. The switch process is cumbersome, manuals are not updated in a timely manner, and environmental consistency cannot be ensured.

Solution Overview

i2DRM is a disaster recovery management platform oriented towards enterprise disaster recovery system construction. Through a unified and visual management operation interface, the platform allows for customizable scenario process preplans, enabling streamlined management of drills and emergency switches. It also provides a command interface and large-screen display, enabling the execution of full-process preplans. Combined with final execution reports, continuous improvement of preplans can be achieved. This helps enterprises continuously improve their business continuity management systems, enhance emergency response capabilities, and elevate IT value.

Information2 has been deeply involved in the disaster recovery industry for over a decade, possessing rich experience in implementing disaster recovery and backup solutions. In terms of business continuity management, Information2 has a profound understanding of various industries. From helping enterprises with overall IT architecture planning and application relationship mapping, analyzing potential risks and business interruption impacts, to developing business continuity plans and strategies for your enterprise, and continuously improving your enterprise's business continuity management capabilities, Information2 can provide complete and practical solutions based on actual situations.

Solution Design

Resource Management

The main management objects include data centers, host resources, script resources, network resources, etc. It provides unified management and monitoring of related resources involved in disaster recovery switches, allowing real-time insight into resource status.

Platform Management

This includes organizations, roles, personnel, and permission management. By constructing relevant organizational structures without limiting levels, setting departments, positions, job types, roles, etc., personnel can be managed and permissions assigned.

Emergency Switch/Disaster Recovery Drill

Initiate a switch or drill for the pre-orchestrated preplan. The main steps include resource locking, personnel sign-in, task execution, completion/resource release.

Preplan Management

Through visual task orchestration in a streamlined manner, offline preplans are electronically managed. Preplans are composed of tasks as units, arranged in series or parallel, and form preplans for different scenarios. Ultimately, emergency switches or drills can be initiated for these preplans.

Screen Display

A disaster recovery large screen that can monitor the entire switch process in real-time is provided. Display content includes the current execution stage, current task, current progress, personnel online status, resource status, detailed alerts, etc.

Archival Management

Host resources, processes, and preplan resources can be archived and managed. They can be restored at any time.

Solution Advantages

Resource Management and Monitoring

Data center resources can be incorporated into management, including host resources, network resources, storage resources, etc. Effective monitoring tools provide real-time insight into the information and operational status of each resource.

Visual Process Orchestration

Preplan phase management is integrated, allowing for visual process orchestration in series and parallel based on actual preplan designs. Preplans are electronically managed through orchestration.

Streamlined Switch Execution

The entire switch is streamlined through a process engine. The execution process, steps, and designed flowcharts remain consistent. If a task fails, it can automatically proceed to the next step or require manual intervention.

Automatic Switch

By monitoring the status of business systems, custom trigger rules can be set to automatically execute the switch when conditions are met.

Organizational Structure Construction and Personnel Permission Management

It supports unlimited levels of organizational structure settings. Each organization can add corresponding job types, roles, positions, etc.; personnel can be quickly imported via enterprise WeChat. Comprehensive permission management allows for setting relevant permissions for roles.

Large Screen Display

The large screen displays current switch-related information, including execution progress, execution stage, ongoing tasks, disaster recovery resource status, personnel online status, alert information, etc. It allows for full-process monitoring of switch execution, enabling quick decision-making based on large screen information.

Application Scenarios

Routine Drills

During routine disaster drills, it is necessary to prepare a drill plan in advance, arrange organizational personnel, lock drill hosts, write execution scripts, and a series of other tasks. When the number of hosts, business complexity, and participating personnel increase, the workload and communication volume of the entire drill also significantly increase. Leveraging the platform to support drills can shorten the design and distribution time of drill plans, ensure timely participation through sign-in operations, shorten the drill cycle, and ultimately greatly reduce the difficulty and workload of the entire drill. Furthermore, the result report can be used to further optimize the drill.

Unified Management of Disaster Recovery Systems

With the development of information technology, not only are the servers within business systems interdependent, but there is also intricate interdependence among business systems, making the corresponding disaster recovery systems increasingly complex. There is a need for unified management of disaster recovery resources. Simultaneously, resource status monitoring is required, including resource management and status monitoring, data consistency monitoring, data replication link monitoring, and data replication status monitoring.

Business Switch

When a host in the production environment fails, it needs to be manually switched to the disaster recovery environment. This process encounters issues such as complicated operations, complex business relationships, cumbersome processes, numerous involved personnel, and human operational risks. Without unified control, it is impossible to fully grasp the situation, ultimately leading to potential issues with RTO guarantees or even switch failures.
i2DRM provides one-click automatic emergency switching.

Customer Case Study

Case Name: Guangxi Television Station - Audio-Visual Integrated Publishing Platform Cloud Disaster Recovery

Case Description

·Schedule local data backups to the cloud
·Real-time backup of critical data
·Automated emergency switching

Case Value

When a failure occurs on the business end, previously, a responsible person needed to be present to manually switch the business system. After introducing i2DRM, even if the responsible person has not initiated any tasks in the case of a failure, the system can still automatically initiate an emergency switch, ensuring business continuity.