VMware VMs

30 September 2023

Cohesity SiteContinuity simplifies and streamlines the orchestration of disaster recovery, automating critical manual steps involved in the process.

SiteContinuity allows you to create a comprehensive DR plan with an acceptable Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for automated disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines (VMs). In this process, SiteContinuity utilizes data backed up on your primary Cohesity cluster. This data, originating from your source VMware vCenter on the primary Cohesity cluster, is replicated to a secondary (DR) Cohesity cluster. This DR cluster can be failed over to a target VMware vCenter. After a successful failover, you have the option to fail back your VMware VMs to the original vCenter or a new one. In addition to restoring the VMware VMs on the DR site, SiteContinuity also ensures the protection of these VMs. This comprehensive solution caters to the specific needs of modern businesses.

Key Features

  • Ransomware Sandbox: Create a sandbox environment within the DR cluster. This environment serves as a safe space to investigate ransomware anomalies, conduct diagnostics, and test potential remediation strategies.

  • Simplified Setup: Set up disaster recovery through a simple three-step process:

    1. Define DR Requirements: Specify your DR requirements such as source and target sites, along with your desired RPO.

    2. Orchestrate Your Applications: Specify the orchestration for your applications, covering VMs, their order, scripts, and any required time delays.

    3. Configure Resource Profiles: Create one or more resource profiles to be utilized during DR operations.

  • Automated DR Solution: Ensures business continuity with a 15-minute RPO and near-instant Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

  • Restore Applications: Restore applications to a specific point in time as needed.

  • Test DR Plans: Test DR plans to identify gaps and adjust the plan for expected functionality.

  • Audit and Activity Logs: Get comprehensive logs that record every action and change to your DR environments.

Supported Workloads

SiteContinuity is currently supported only for on-premises to on-premises (site-to-site) disaster recovery of VMware VMs.