Cove Data Protection (Cove)'s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a cloud-based BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) capability that allows protected physical and virtual servers to be failed over as running virtual machines (VMs) in the N-able cloud. When a disaster or critical outage occurs, partners can initiate failover to restore customer workloads with minimal downtime.
Failover refers to the process when the customer transfers their production workload from their on-premises network to N-able cloud network.
DRaaS Use Cases
Below are the two main use cases for the user in which DRaaS is helpful:
- Full Site Failover: The customer's entire on-premises infrastructure is unavailable and cannot be recovered in place. All protected servers are restored as virtual machines in the N-able cloud, allowing the customer to resume operations entirely from the cloud environment while the original infrastructure is repaired or replaced.
While DRaaS is in public preview, Full Site Failover is not supported. When this feature is released to General Availability, the ability to login to the virtual machines in the N-able cloud will be added to the Cove Management Console, as will the ability to expose the virtual machine to the internet.
- Partial Failover: A portion of the customer's on-premises infrastructure is unavailable while the rest remains operational. Only the affected servers are restored in the N-able cloud. To maintain a fully functioning environment, the remaining on-premises systems are connected to the cloud-hosted virtual machines via a secure network link, creating a temporary hybrid setup until the original infrastructure is fully restored.
In order to start failover in case of any disaster, the device must first be added to the plan.