Disaster Recovery Flashcards

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RTO

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Recovery Time Objective

- Period of time system can remain offline after disaster

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WRT

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Work Recovery Time

- Additional work for testing and integration to restore for full business function

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MTD

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Maximum Tolerable Downtime

- Max time a system can be down

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4
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RPO

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Recovery Point Objective

  • The amount of data loss a system can sustain measured in time units
  • For instance, if a database was destroyed RPO of 24 means it can be recovered from not more than 24 hours before hand
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5
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MTBF

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Mean Time Between Failures

  • Life expectancy of product
  • Total operational time divided by number of failures
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MTTF

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Mean Time to Failure

  • Averaged time til a non replaceable component fails
  • Used to calculate needed redundancy necessary
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MTTR

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Mean Time to Repair

  • Measure of time taken to correct a fault
  • Could be time taken to replace or restore as well
  • total number of hours of unplanned maintenance divided by number of failures
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PDU

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Power Distribution Unit

  • “Cleans” a power signal, providing protection from spikes and drops.
  • Integrates with UPS
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9
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Multi-pathing

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  • Network node has more than one physical link to another node
  • Default for full and partial mesh
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SAN Multipathing

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  • Each server has at least two SAN controllers each with a dedicated link to the storage network
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11
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Multiple ISPs

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  • Multiple WAN hookups from different ISPs.
  • Must make sure they are using separate infrastructure
  • Diverse paths of entry increases redundancy
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12
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NIC Teaming

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  • Combining two or more cabled connections to make one logical channel
  • AKA Link Aggregation
  • Also called bonding
  • Provides redundancy so long as the function does not demand full speed of bonded link
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13
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Load Balancer

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  • Distributes server requests over nodes in a farm or pool
  • Layer 4 Switch,
  • Layer 7 Switch (content switch), makes decisions based on content based data. Requires a mode complex processor.
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14
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Clustering

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  • Allows multiple processing nodes that share data

- If one stops working, it fails over to others

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Virtual IP

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Shared or Floating address

  • Public IP is shared between two instances in a cluster
  • Active node owns the IP
  • Fails over automatically based on heartbeat
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16
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FHRP

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First Hop Redundancy Protocol

17
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HSRP

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Hot Standby Router Protocol

  • Allows multiple physical routers to serve as gateway for subnet
  • They share common virtual IP and MAC
  • Choose active router based on priorities set by admin
18
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Diverse Pathing

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  • Provisioning WAN links that are physically separate and distant from each other