A runbook for VCF 9.1 management-component backup and fleet disaster recovery, focusing on protecting the recovery control plane.
VCF Protection and Recovery 9.1 enables self-service disaster recovery via VCF Automation, balancing tenant autonomy with governance controls.
Designing a shared VCF 9.1 recovery site for vSAN, VMFS, and NFS workloads, covering architecture, sizing, and migration considerations.
VMware Live Recovery is renamed to VCF Protection and Recovery in VCF 9.1, explaining the layered protection model and key changes.
Explains why recovery plans fail during platform transformations and how to protect mixed versions, hypervisors, and migrations.
An analysis of why manual cloud configuration (ClickOps) creates infrastructure debt and fails to scale, emphasizing the need for Infrastructure-as-Code for disaster recovery.
Google Cloud accidentally deletes Australian fund UniSuper's infrastructure, causing two-week outage; data saved by third-party backup.
Google Cloud accidentally deletes Australian fund UniSuper's infrastructure, causing two-week outage; third-party backup prevents total data loss.
Explains the differences between backup, resiliency, and disaster recovery in Azure, focusing on RPO and RTO for service and data availability.
Explains Azure availability zone mapping risks and how to use the azqr tool to verify physical datacenter mappings for HA/DR.
A debate on whether SQL Server DBAs need to know Windows clustering and if high availability features are worth the operational complexity.
Guide to configuring BizTalk Server's native backup jobs to store database backups directly in Azure Blob Storage using SQL Server's BACKUP TO URL feature.
A personal review of MeshCore, an encrypted, off-grid mesh messaging system using LoRa radios for communication during emergencies.
Learn how to use Azure Arc and Azure Policy to audit and enable the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on Windows Servers for improved recovery and resilience.
Explains how to use Azure Traffic Manager as a failover solution for Azure Front Door during global service outages, ensuring application availability.
Explains the importance of a Secure Isolated Recovery Environment (SIRE) in Azure for ransomware protection and business continuity.
A guide to simulating a zonal failure on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot using kubectl commands and a custom script.
Explains the benefits of SQL Server contained availability groups for simplifying failover and reducing DBA workload, contrasting them with traditional AGs.
Explores backup and disaster recovery strategies for Azure Local, focusing on VM recovery, hydration challenges, and Azure Site Recovery.
Explores redundancy challenges in Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), covering node, storage, and network design for multi-site resilience.
