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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By : Peter Ward
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By: Peter Ward

Overview of this book

Where does it all go wrong with disaster recovery? Yes, why a disaster recovery plan fails the business and costs IT staff their jobs or a promotion? This book is an easytounderstand guide that explains how to get it right and why it often goes wrong. Given that Microsoft's SharePoint platform has become a missioncritical application where business operations just cannot run without complete uptime of this technology, disaster recovery is one of the most important topics when it comes to SharePoint. Yet, support and an appropriate approach for this technology are still difficult to come by, and are often vulnerable to technical oversight and assumptions. Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide looks at SharePoint disaster recovery and breaks down the mystery and confusion that surrounds what is a vital activity to any technical deployment. This book provides a holistic approach with practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of the new 2013 functionality and cloud technologies. You will also learn how to plan, test, and deploy a disaster recovery environment using SharePoint, Windows Server, and SQL tools. We will also take a look at datasets and custom development. If you want to have an approach to disaster recovery that gives you peace of mind, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Virtual Environment Backup and Restore Procedures
Index

Amazon Web Services and HA/DR


To get a handle on implementing HA/DR for SharePoint running in AWS, you need to first understand AWS and some of the specific service offerings that are available and relevant to a SharePoint implementation. AWS is a collection of remote computing services that together create a cloud-computing platform. This platform provides a myriad of products in various functional categories, including computing, storage, messaging, content delivery, networking, and so on. But AWS is also characterized as a full IaaS provider, and it is this capability that we would be harnessing for a SharePoint infrastructure. The essential infrastructure components that we would typically utilize for SharePoint HA/DR include the following:

  • Global infrastructure – regions and Availability Zones

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

  • Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

  • Amazon Route 53

This is not at all an exhaustive...