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Lowering Azure VMs Recovery Time with Pure Cloud Block Store and Azure Automation

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The gold standard of DR solutions is ensuring these two goals are set to a lower value with minimum effort and in a cost-saving fashion. . It helps keep your multi-tier applications running during planned and unplanned IT outages. Recovery plans are an Azure Site Recovery feature; they define a step-by-step process for VM failover.

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Non-disruptive DR Drills for Oracle Databases Using Pure Storage ActiveDR?—?Part 1 of 4

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Pulling myself out of bed and rolling into the office at 8am on a Saturday morning knowing I was in for a full day of complex failover testing to tick the regulator’s box was a bad start to the weekend. Once complete, our database volumes have replicated to the DR array and are safe in the event of any failure/outage at the PROD site.

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Pure Storage Architecture 101: Built-in Performance and Availability

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However, this also means that during a planned or unplanned outage of a single controller, the array has lost 50% of its total performance profile. If not, a single controller failure could cause a data outage or corruption. This brings two challenges: data consistency and complexity. All controllers must act in harmony as one.