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SharePoint Out of the Box Content Recovery, Disaster Recovery, and High Availability Options

JavierBarrera.com

javier.barrera@rackspace.com

@jtbarrera

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Are we at the right place?

+My Path…My Failures

…My Success

+Our Shared Confusion…

+Knowledge and Planning

+Define

SharePoint in ContextBusiness RequirementsProcesses and ToolsHigh AvailabilityDisaster Recovery

+ SharePoint the Dreaded Tween

+Business Requirements

Recovery Level Object (RLO)

Recovery Point Objective (RPO)

Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Standardized Operating Procedure (SOP)

+Continuity Planning

+Recycle Bin

+Versioning

Enabled at the library or list level

Items and files can be versioned

Closely manage versioning

@jtbarrera | JavierBarrera.com

+Backup and Recover the Farm

+Backup and Recover Content

+Recover content from an Unattached Content Database

+High Availability

+SQL High Availability

High Available WFEs using a load balancer

High Available App servers

Active/Passive or AlwaysOn SQL configuration

+Service Application High Availability

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Step 1: Distribute Service Apps on different SP servers

Step 2: SharePoint manages Service App load balancing

+Virtualized High Availability

+Disaster Recovery

+Stretched Farm

Realistic?

99.9% of <1MS latency

1GB connectivity

+Stand by Data Center

Warm or Hot Farm config

Logically identical

Not all Service Application databases can be copied over

Most Content databases can be copied

What about the end-user?

3rd party product…

+What Can’t I Replicate?

Config

Central Admin

BCS

Parts of User Profile Service

Search…search…search

3rd party service databases

+SQL 2012 AlawaysOn?

SQL 2012 Enterprise Only

Performance Hit

Does not overcome most SharePoint weaknesses

No Shared Storage requirements

Replication can happen at 1-1 or 1-many configuration

Replication can happen as a set of databases

+Other Options?

+Leads to Success!

+Reference

SharePoint 2010 Products backup and recovery planning workbook http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10895

Plan for business continuity management http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263031