Part 4 – Match Your Business Continuity and Service Levels

Chapter 12, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, describes what's behind normal operation and maintenance in order to define your business continuity requirements and match your expected service levels. Availability, SLA, data and system protection, disaster recovery, and other basics concepts are described in this chapter, with a brief introduction of SRM and SR as a solution for DR.

Chapter 13, Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5, focuses on specific availability (and resiliency) solutions in vSphere, including the new vSphere High Availability (HA) features, proactive HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT), and other solutions, such as guest clustering.

Chapter 14, Data and Workloads Protection, provides some information on how to save your configuration, data, and workload from your virtual infrastructure. VMware is discontinuing VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), a general-purpose backup product included with vSphere, making the related ecosystem the proper way to manage those aspects.