To design a disaster recovery solution that meets the needs and requirements of Veeam University Hospital, you need to identify some information during the discovery phase. This information will help you to understand the scope and scale of the replication and failover processes, the network andstorage resources and limitations, and the recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives.
According to the Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practice Guide, some of the information that is necessary to design the disaster recovery solution and must be identified during discovery are:
•The number of virtual machines to be replicated. This information will help you to determine the number and size of the replication jobs, as well as the replication performance and scalability, based on the number and type of virtual machines.
•The available bandwidth between locations. This information will help you to estimate the network bandwidth and throughput that are available for replication traffic, as well as the impact of replication activities on the network performance and latency.
•Which sites will be the source of replication and which sites will be the targets for recovery. This information will help you to plan and configure the replication infrastructure, such as the proxy servers, repository servers, WAN accelerators, and failover plans, based on the source and target locations.
