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CIS 409 Week 6 Assignment 1 Disaster Recovery Plan
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You are an administrator for the Contoso Corporation. The Contoso Corporation has two (2)
large sites. The corporate office is in New York and the manufacturing site is in Cleveland, Ohio.
In addition, the Contoso Corporation has five (5) smaller sites.
At the Corporate site, you currently have eight (8) physical Hyper-V hosts that host
approximately one hundred twenty (120) virtual machines. The virtual machines are running
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. The servers are needed to host email,
various databases, file services, print services, and a point-of sales-application. The virtual
machines are stored on a centrally located storage area network (SAN) that has multiple power
supplies, and use redundant array of independent disks (RAID).
Over the last three (3) years, you have had two (2) power failures that caused the servers to go
down at the corporate office. Recently, during one (1) of these incidents, files on one (1) of the
servers were corrupted. It was later discovered that the backup could only partially restore the
data files, but could not restore the server itself.
The servers must remain available and reliable. As the administrator, you must ensure that you
can recover from a failure or problem quickly with minimum loss.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
Develop a continuity plan / disaster recovery plan for Contoso Corporation in which you
address the following:
Suggest an approach that provides redundancy (failover) for all mission critical functions in the
event of a disaster including power failure. Consider the following in your approach: Essential