Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity FAQs 

How can a virtualized infrastructure help when it comes to disaster recovery?
Many businesses have secondary disaster recovery locations to use when a disaster strikes, but often those secondary sites remain cold until time of disaster. In a DR situation, sometimes that secondary site needs to be brought on-line, which can take hours—if not days—and when time is of the essence, businesses can't afford to be down longer than necessary.

With the UCS™2900, your secondary site is already cabled and ready to be brought on-line. The UCS 2900 not only facilitates instant re-cabling—in a click of the mouse—but an operator can execute the changes from a remote location, negating the need for on-site staff at the DR location.

How can the Universal Connectivity System™ 2900 help with my business continuity initiatives?
Often, unbalanced network situations are left unchecked resulting in IT equipment degrading to its breaking point. As a result equipment or a cable could fail causing downtime. And when it comes to cable failure, hours—if not days—can be consumed with trying to pinpoint the one cable causing the failure.

As well, when your equipment is cabled to the UCS™ 2900, you can pre-program an auto-move feature that will protect you from unexpected downtime due to hardware failures.

What about business continuity planning and testing?
Due to compliance and regulations, most businesses need to show that they have tested their DR plans once a year, if not quarterly. However, a lot of times a complete test is not implemented—or needs to be outsourced—due to the volume of equipment and time necessary to have a proper test.

By implementing a virtualized infrastructure layer utilizing a Universal Connectivity System™ 2900 switch, all equipment in your data center or lab is cabled once providing you with the ability to 'virtually' select all equipment needed for your DR/BC testing—in a click. What does that mean? No more cable pulling or equipment moving for your test. You can pre-configure your test configuration in a matter of minutes, and when it's time to test you just select the configuration and run your test! The UCS 2900 provides DR/BC testing in minutes—not hours or days.