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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

Windows Azure and HA/DR


Microsoft's Windows Azure comes in a few different flavors, but for the purpose of this chapter, we will focus on IaaS components, as they contain the most applicable feature set for SharePoint disaster recovery. Just as with AWS, with Windows Azure you can spin up a SharePoint environment on-demand, and dynamically adjust your usage as needs change. The essential infrastructure components that we would typically utilize for SharePoint HA/DR include the following:

  • Global Infrastructure – datacenters and traffic managers

  • Virtual network

  • Virtual machines

  • Load balancing

  • Storage

  • Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Global infrastructure – datacenters and traffic manager

The Windows Azure cloud maintains datacenters globally, with locations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and soon in Australia and Japan. This enables several disaster recovery scenarios, such as the geo-replication of Windows Azure Storage to secondary datacenters. Currently, there are eight global datacenter locations...