Simplify your DR process by recovering to a virtual environment using Cristie’s BMR solutions

Cristie Software are experts in Bare Machine Recovery and with their range of BMR solutions businesses can recover from physical or virtual environments.

So what are the advantages of recovering to a virtual environment? 

Well, the advantages are split into two categories dependent on usage, for testing and for disaster recovery.




For testing purposes:

1. You don’t need dedicated hardware. You can create a virtual machine in minutes and can delete it after the test
2. May not have to allocate operating system and other licenses to the test machine
3. Testing can be automated and scheduled
4. Automate your recoveries using Cristie’s Answer File creation tools

As part of a Disaster Recovery plan:

1. Don’t have to have dedicated hardware standing by for recoveries
2. Drivers required for VMware and HyperV VM’s are included with Cristie’s BMR software
3. Can help improve Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) if DR is due to an incident like flooding etc. not reliant on a physical server being available
4. Possible to reduce overall costs for Business Continuity due to no dedicated hardware requirements

Cristie Software can help

At Cristie Software our BMR solutions work across virtual and physical, so you don’t need to purchase and maintain a separate product for each environment and the products seamlessly can connect the two interfaces when recovery is required.

Cristie Software provide BMR, backup and migration solutions worldwide through a network of leading global resellers and business partners including IBM.

The range of BMR solutions from Cristie Software includes:

• TBMR – Bare Machine Recovery exclusively for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Allows TSM users to recover their machines direct from TSM
• NBMR – Bare Machine Recovery solely for EMC’s (formally Legato) NetWorker. Recovers machines fast directly from NetWorker to a pre-disaster state
• CBMR – Cristie Bare Machine Recovery, a stand-alone solution designed to provide complete protection of data, as well as the ability to recover critical machines from scratch within minutes 

CBMR, TBMR and NBMR all support dissimilar hardware restores and recovery to other physical or virtual environments. Our software supports a range of operating systems including AIX, Linux, Windows and Solaris.

With dedicated support teams that are available 24/7 for priority one failures, Cristie offer a first class service to their customers to ensure that downtime is kept to a minimum and business can return to a fully operational state as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Find out more information at www.cristie.com/products/disaster-recovery/