What are the best practices for and accepted technologies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery? |
BMC Control-M support organization has released a whitepaper on “Application Continuity with Control-M”. You can download this whitepaper searching our Knowledge Base and finding the whitepaper attached to this Knowledge Article. Application Continuity is essential for a mission critical application such as Control-M. The definition of Application Continuity is the means taken by an organization to ensure that critical applications continuously function under all circumstances. The whitepaper discusses the supported technologies when implementing application continuity in both High Availability and in Disaster Recovery scenarios. In addition, the whitepaper details best practices for performing Disaster Recovery and best practices for maintaining a consistent backups for Control-M environment. When the failure is localized and limited to an application in a given location then we will refer to the term High Availability as a means taken to minimize the frequency and duration of downtime in the production environment. Downtime can be caused by either unexpected hardware or software failures, or by planned events, such as software version updates. The target of any organization that wants to establish High Availability levels is to maintain the lowest possible number of unexpected downtime incidents and the shortest possible planned or unplanned downtime. The planning for a contingency site in a situation where the primary site has been completely disabled is referred to as planning for Disaster Recovery. In a Disaster Recovery scenario, businesses understand the recovery of the BMC Control-M infrastructure is not immediate, and there is an acceptable downtime before the application needs to be online to resume business processing. Download the whitepaper on Application Continuity to get more details why Application Continuity is important and review the available solutions for achieving Application Continuity in BMC Control-M, as well as guidelines for their implementation. |