Re: Banner Data Guard / VMWare / Zerto (Zert0) / Veeam

[Richard Siedzik <rsiedzik () BRYANT EDU>]

Tom:
Although we’re not there yet, we intend to arrive at a similar destination with Banner.  To do that we brought in a new 
data management product from a company you may or may not have heard of, Actifio.  The product is Actifio CDS.  We 
currently use the product for data protection, backup and recovery.  We’ve pretty much decommissioned all of our legacy 
backup products across all our systems.  We’re building out a second instance of Actifio at a co-lo facility where we 
electronically ship backup data.  We intend to  leverage the product for BC and DR.  This has been a multi-phase 
project with a number of moving parts but ultimately it will buy us DR-on-Demand with Banner and a number of other 
critical apps.  One of the nice things about the product is its Application/SLA centric.  Might be worth a look.  Would 
also be glad to answer any questions you might have off-line.

Best Regards,
Rich Siedzik | Director of Computer & Telecommunications Services | Bryant University
office 401.232.6505| mobile: 401.241.7821
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Subject: [SECURITY] Banner Data Guard / VMWare / Zerto (Zert0) / Veeam


Friends:

As I work together with our CIO, Nathan Nolen, to improve the quality of the information services our department 
provides to the campus, we are looking to implement a highly available disaster recovery solution for our Ellucian 
Banner student information system.

While we review traditional SAN-over-WAN disaster recovery scenarios that leverage VMWare for dependent non-database 
system replication and Banner Data Guard for replication of the database itself, we remain especially interested in 
more novel approaches -- for example, a product like Zerto (Zert0).

By extension, we are interested in feedback from, or a dialogue with, those institutions that have successfully 
deployed Banner in a hot-hot or hot-warm scenario, using Banner Data Guard in conjunction with either traditional or 
more novel solutions.

Looking at the EDUCAUSE CIO archives, I do see that a similar request was made some months ago, but it seemingly went 
unanswered.  Altogether, I look forward to any thoughts, comments, experiences, and / or recommendations our EDUCAUSE 
friends might wish to share.

Best & Respectfully--
Tom Wolfe
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Thomas S. Wolfe | Deputy Chief Information Officer
University of Arkansas at Little Rock | Information Technology Services
501.916.3010 | tswolfe () ualr edu<mailto:tswolfe () ualr edu> | ualr.edu/itservices<http://ualr.edu/itservices>