VMware vCloud®

Air™

Improving Disaster

Recovery Readiness

Fact:

75%Did you know that

of all companies are

not adequately prepared

for disaster recovery?

Source: Disaster Recovery Preparedness

Benchmark Survey, 2014 Annual Report

Good NewsIt’s relatively simple to improve

your disaster recovery

readiness with VMware

vCloud® Air™ Disaster Recovery.

What is the service?It's a recovery-as-a-service

offering operated by VMware,

built on VMware vSphere®

technology.

What does the service provide?It offers cost-effective replication,

mirroring, and cloud-based disaster

recovery capabilities for vSphere

environments.

Simple Packaging for DRTerm Lengths: 1, 3, 12, 24, 36 Month Subscriptions

Minimum size:10GHz vCPU20GB vRAM

Starts at1 TB

10 Mbps allocated2 Public IPsUnlimited tests with core subscription

New Instance Type as DR Service Tier

DR Instance

vCloud Air Standard Service TiersDedicated

Cloud InstanceVirtual Private Cloud Instance

Core price is $795 per month for:

Simple Pricing for DR

Additional storage, compute and network services are available

Compute [10GHz, 20GB RAM]

Storage [1TB]

IP addresses [2]

Bandwidth [10Mbps]

Unlimited tests with core subscription

Production support

For businesses running a

VMware vSphere environment,subscribing to vCloud Air Disaster

Recovery service, makes DR and

VM replication easy.

Here are 3 tips to get started

Assess your virtual

machines to determine

your subscription and

capacity requirements.

Step

Step

Match your service needs

to the RPOs you’ve

established. The service

supports RPOs of 15

minutes to 24 hours.

StepInstall or verify what you’re already running.

• VMware vSphere 5.1 or higher

• VMware vCenter 5.1 or higher

• vSphere Replication 5.6

• Public Internet Connectivity

Here’s what users are saying about vCloud Air Disaster Recovery

It’s a no-brainer to use vCloud Air Disaster

Recovery. It is as simple as turning it on.”– EVP of Products, Planview

We know how to administer vSphere, so

the simplicity and familiarity of administering

vCloud Air Disaster Recovery is just as easy.” – VP of Hosting Operations, Planview

vCloud Air Disaster Recovery

can greatly reduce IT capital

expenditure by removing the

need for a remote offsite location

for DR operations.”– Network Security Company

Extremely efficient and

easy to deploy. vCloud Air

Disaster Recovery is

worth every penny.”– IT Director, Legacy Reserves LP

We will extend our use of

vCloud Air to provide disaster

recovery to 46 remote branch

offices in 14 countries.”– Director of Global Technology, Columbia Sportswear

We needed a strategic disaster recovery

plan consistent with our on-premise

infrastructure, and VMware vCloud Air

Disaster Recovery provides that seamless

connection and dependable recovery,

increasing business resiliency with minimal

investment.”– Director of IT, San Francisco Ballet

Why wait? Subscribe to vCloud

Air Disaster Recovery

today!vmware.com/go/protectyourapps

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