The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is
backing up its
virtualisation strategy with the
implementation of virtualised disaster recovery from
Vizioncore.
The charity, which currently runs about 70 servers across 20 UK
sites, wanted to be able to take an image of a virtual server while
it makes changes in a testing environment.
The charity embarked on a virtualisation strategy three years
ago, when it began using VMware’s ESX server product. Mike
Courtney, senior systems engineer at RSPB, said server
virtualisation has been a success.
“It has allowed us to cut costs in terms of material servers and
enabled us to be more flexible in what we set up and how quickly we
do it,” he said.
But Courtney said there was a requirement for additional back-up
products to support the virtualised servers during testing.
“It is not always practical to hold a copy of an entire server
in the test environment,” he said.
“With Vizioncore’s esxRanger software we can take an
exact replica of any system and put it in the test
environment.”
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