[AusNOG] Moving Disaster Site to Cloud

[Chad Kelly]

On 2/12/2016 9:53 AM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
> On 11 February 2016 at 10:06, Qui Le<QLe at sydneyoperahouse.com>  wrote:
>
>> >Hi All,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >We are thinking of moving our DR service to Cloud ? not sure which
>> >provider to use yet.
>> >
> Select your provider based on their ability to meet your requirements - the
> provider selection should be a very late decision in your process.
>
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>> >We are looking at prerequisite information/requirement such as VLAN,
>> >  rack space , equipment ie network requirements
>> >
> Much of this is irrelevant with a cloud service provider, or defined by you
> when you set up your service.  The whole point of cloud is to abstract
> yourself from the underlying details of the infrastructure required to
> provide the service to you as the customer.  If you want to control those
> things, cloud isn't right for you.
>
>> >
>> >
>> >Anyone with experiences , things to consider or tips of doing this are
>> >much appreciated.
>> >
> Start with what your goals are.  Then go and ask the providers you talk to
> how they would help you to meet those goals.
While traditionally moving data to the cloud has meant that providers 
have outsourced networking and server resources to their chosen 
provider, now a days some providers are offering limited space on 
virtual machines for disaster recovery.
As others have said Microsoft Azure do it for virtual machines where you 
can mirror your virtual machine on their network, and Micron21 hear in 
Melbourne offer what they call virtual co-location where you can store 
your servers data on a VM and switch to it if your main server goes 
offline for whatever reason.
Though for what the Op wants I would be looking at a High Availability 
service such as http://www.micron21.com/high_availability_colocation.php
Or maybe a managed Amazon Web Services option from one of the providers 
would do what you need.
It all comes down to budget and your end goals at the end of the day.



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Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
web www.cpkws.com.au
phone 03 9013 4853