Disaster Recovery Management for Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery Management for IT continuity with Sangfor cloud solutions ensures rapid recovery, secure backup, and minimal downtime for your critical business operations.
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Reliable Disaster Recovery Management for Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery Management is more important than ever in today’s connected world. According to Gartner, nearly 40% of businesses that suffer a major system outage never reopen, and another third go out of business within two years. With more people relying on digital access, business continuity has become a critical need.

Unexpected events like hardware failure or natural disasters—can disrupt operations at any time. That’s why companies in the UAE and GCC need a reliable disaster recovery solution that protects both on-premise and cloud-based systems.

Sangfor’s Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) offers powerful solutions with active-passive disaster recovery and active-active stretched clusters, designed for both homogeneous and heterogeneous IT environments. It helps businesses recover faster and continue operating without major delays.

Advanced Sangfor DR Architecture for Cloud Resilience

Homogeneous Disaster Recovery Architecture

Sangfor provides a complete cloud disaster recovery solution between its HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) and MCS (Managed Cloud Services). This includes both active-passive and active-active solutions to ensure consistent uptime. With this architecture, you can achieve a near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and a fast Recovery Time Objective (RTO), helping to maintain uninterrupted services.

This solution is ideal for organizations looking to implement Disaster Recovery Services that offer flexibility and control across internal systems.

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Heterogeneous Disaster Recovery Architecture

The heterogeneous disaster recovery solution from Sangfor is designed to support a wider range of platforms beyond its native environment. It ensures reliable Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for third-party virtualized environments and physical servers, making it suitable for businesses running VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or other systems.

This architecture enhances cloud-based disaster recovery for businesses across the UAE and GCC, providing added protection and backup capabilities.

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Capabilities

Sangfor DRM provides a full range of disaster recovery solutions based on customer’s business RTO and RPO requirements. It is simple, resilient, easy to deploy and manage.

For disaster recovery solutions between Sangfor HCI or MCS,

Solution

RPO

RTO

Bandwidth

Distance

Local HA
0
30s
1 Gbps mgmt.
N/A
Disasterrecovery
Min. 1s
Mins
Based on RPO and IO speed
No limitation
Stretched cluster
0
30s
1 Gbps fiber / 10 Gbps fiber, RTT<=5ms
<=50km

For disaster recovery solution between 3rd party platforms and Sangfor cloud (HCI or MCS),

Critical Business – CDP Hot Standby DR

Important Business – VM Synchronization DR

Secondary Business – Quick Recovery DR

  • Use CDP to realize real-time synchronization
  • DR Site in hot-standby mode
  • One-click switch to enable backup server
  • Realize RPO=0, switch in 1 minute

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  • Use CDP to transmit data from production site to DR site with real-time or scheduled mode
  • DR site in shutdown mode, during DR, it will pullup DR VM and ta over the business
  • Realize RPO=O, switch in 5 minutes

  • Real-time/scheduled backup to HCI resource pool to support rapid reconstruction and recovery of TB-level data 
  • Recover data to HCI when disaster happens
  • Realize RPO=0, switch in 30 minutes

Real-World Use Cases for Sangfor DRM

Use Cases for Homogeneous DR

  • Active-passive disaster recovery between Sangfor HCI and MCS
  • Active-active stretched cluster for uninterrupted business operations


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Use Cases for Heterogeneous DR

  • Disaster recovery for mixed environments using VMware, Hyper-V, KVM
  • Backup and restore for physical servers and migration to Sangfor Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions

 

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is Disaster Recovery Management (DRM), and why is it important?

Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) is a process that helps businesses quickly recover their IT systems and data after a failure or unexpected event. It ensures minimal downtime and protects your operations from data loss. For businesses in the UAE and GCC, having a strong DRM plan is critical to maintain business continuity and meet customer expectations.

Sangfor DRM offers flexible solutions that support both on-premise infrastructure and cloud platforms. It includes active-passive and active-active recovery setups, helping businesses in mixed or fully cloud-based environments recover quickly after disruptions. This is especially useful for organizations using hybrid IT models across the UAE and GCC.

Homogeneous disaster recovery works within a single platform like Sangfor HCI and MCS, ensuring fast and seamless failover. Heterogeneous disaster recovery supports different systems—like VMware, Hyper-V, and physical servers—making it ideal for businesses with varied IT environments. Both are supported under Sangfor’s Disaster Recovery Services.

Sangfor DRaaS offers a cloud-based approach to disaster recovery, reducing the need for heavy hardware investment. It provides fast recovery, centralized management, and high data protection, making it a cost-effective and scalable option for businesses across the UAE and GCC seeking reliable cloud disaster recovery solutions.