The purpose of this chapter is to establish a foundation for the reader, by identifying the key concepts, both technical and operational, that will eventually need to be applied to a SharePoint deployment within an organization.
In this chapter, we will cover:
Identifying Disaster Recovery (DR) scenarios within SharePoint and its associated technology stack
Inheriting a mission critical environment that has no existing DR plans
Traditional DR – the battle between cost and speed
Thinking in terms of service disruptions versus disasters
Four datacenter outages in 2012 that we can learn from
Building confidence by refining DR plans with more frequent testing
What is virtualization and how does it help with DR?
Efficiently supporting hybrid environments with virtualized DR
Cloud based solutions welcoming a new approach