Destiny favors the prepared! An efficient data center with high-end servers and zipping storage delivering throttling performance for your Hyper-V clusters and independent hosts. Sounds as if your script is almost complete. Maintaining virtual workloads on clusters, and ensuring a decent backup strategy does take care of any short-lived or predictable contingency in your environment. However, if you overlook disaster recovery or other major contingencies in your design, then your deliverables are far from complete. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a norm for enterprises. BCP ensures that the solution designs stand robust, and are able to sustain any major disruptions to the primary data center. Disruptions can arise in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophe, a site wide power outage, or even SAN failure on site, to name a few. Enterprises resort to SAN level replication to a secondary site, but the same adds a big bill to the CAPEX and OPEX, and also...