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Virtual Disaster Recovery: Rapid, Hardware-Free Recovery

Disaster Recovery to a Managed Virtual Environment

RestartIT-VDR ensures rapid recovery in the event of an outage or disaster by virtualizing your production servers in AmeriVault's secure, remote datacenter. 

Active Recovery Mode:  Eliminating hardware investment and compatibility issues for the recovery at AmeriVault's datacenter, RestartIT-VDR maintains an image of your root drive, including operating system and applications, in an active virtual environment.  Testable at will, the active virtualized image can be updated via Internet whenever necessary with patches, upgrades, etc.  In the event of a disaster or outage, your backup data can be recovered to the virtualized environment at Gig-E speed and users can be re-routed to continue work as usual - with minimal downtime.

Dormant Recovery Mode:  To reduce costs, AmeriVault can manually capture an image of your production server's root drive and keep it dormant in our virtual recovery environment.  At the time of declaration, the virtual environment is booted and updated before recovery begins.

» Recovery Point: Last Backup
» Recovery Time: 2 to 6 Hours
Note: Recovery time estimates may vary depending on data volume and recovery mode (active or dormant).

Faster Recovery:  AmeriVault's active, virtualized recovery environment offers all the advantages of warm servers - saving you a significant step in the recovery process.  Failover to your active, virtual recovery servers and re-route users to the remote virtual environment while your primary site is rebuilt.

Hardware-Free:  Virtualized recovery provides cost savings that enable SMBs to have advanced, enterprise-level recovery solutions.  Virtualized recovery eliminates hardware procurement - as well as compatibility issues - for the recovery at AmeriVault's datacenter.

Economical Recovery:  For the most cost effective solution, AmeriVault can maintain an image of your server's root drive in our dormant virtual recovery environment.  To perform a recovery, boot and update your virtualized recovery servers, recover your backup data at Gig-E speed, and re-route users to the virtual recovery environment while the primary site is rebuilt.

Virtual Disaster Recovery Benefits

   » Rapid, Economical Recovery
   » Avoid Travel to Datacenter & Skip a Time-Consuming Step in the Recovery Process
   » No Capital Expense for Recovery Servers
   » No Hardware Compatibility Issues
   » Remote User Access to Virtual Recovery Environment following Disaster
   » High Availability Options
   » Quick & Easy Implementation
   » World-Class Datacenter
   » Technical Support
   » Easy Recovery Testing
   » Training Included
   » Virtualization Supports Windows, Netware, Linux, & Unix

Find Out More

To learn more about RestartIT-VDR, email us or call 800-774-0235.


RestartIT-VDR Architecture


Custom Solution

AmeriVault tailors solutions to fit your specific recovery point and time objectives for particular applications. Email us to discuss your requirements.


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"RestartIT-VDR provides businesses an affordable and practical option to immediately recover their application servers without the expense, risk and wait of creating one's own offsite DR site."

- Jerome Wendt, Lead Analyst & President, DCIG, Inc.