GCP – JetStream for GCE Disaster Recovery Orchestration: Protect and manage your critical workloads

Enterprises need strong disaster recovery (DR) processes in place to ensure business continuity in the face of unforeseen disruptions. A robust disaster recovery plan safeguards essential data and systems, minimizing downtime and potential financial losses. This not only helps maintain customer trust by providing service reliability but also can help play a vital role in meeting regulatory compliance requirements. 

An effective DR solution provides near-zero recovery-point and recovery-time objectives (RPO and RTO). JetStream Software is partnering with Google Cloud on its orchestrated JetStream for Google Compute Engine Disaster Recovery Orchestration, which you can deploy and use via Google Cloud Marketplace.

The solution uses Google Cloud’s Asynchronous Replication, which simplifies block-level storage replication with API-driven, agentless functionality, without performance overhead.  Asynchronous replication protects data between two regions with low RPO and low RTO. In the unlikely event of a regional outage, Async Replication lets you failover your data to a secondary region and restart your workload in that region. It also supports consistency groups for multi-disk applications. Compute Engine supports block-storage asynchronous replication with RPO < 1 minute, cloning for DR testing, rapid replication disconnect and storage attach to support rapid recovery, and compatibility with high performance disks.

And for organizations that need near-zero RTO,  minimal downtime automated recovery processes, non-disruptive failover testing, and robust protection orchestration, JetStream for GCE Disaster Recovery Orchestration provides:

• Configuration management: Manages runtime configuration changes for your VMs

• Tight integration: Available directly through GCP Marketplace

• Ready-to-use failover and failback orchestration: Enables rapid recovery and business continuity and full orchestration of protection, failover, run DR drills for failover and failback operations, minimizing downtime and impact on the business

• Continuous monitoring: Provides replication monitoring to help ensure data protection

• Continuous replication: Helps ensure minimal data loss in a disaster scenario

Let’s take a deeper look at some of these capabilities.

Setup and configuration management
JetStream works with both Windows and Linux VMs without any OS agents or guest OS modifications. Deployment is streamlined with deployment scripts and documentation. JetStream actively monitors and responds to runtime configuration changes such as VM property adjustments, and can hot-add or remove disks from protected VMs.

Failover and failback with runbook support
JetStream uses disk-level asynchronous replication and Compute Engine APIs for VM replication, for a general-purpose solution. It supports both failover and failback, and includes runbook support that provides DR administrators with fine-grained control over the recovery order of protected VMs. This includes the ability to achieve DR for stateless workloads, including SAP application servers.

DR drills
JetStream supports safe and non-disruptive failover testing. These test failovers don’t impact ongoing protection, allowing disaster recovery DR administrators to test and validate their recovery plans in a controlled environment, without risk.

Get started

Want to experience JetStream for GCE Disaster Recovery Orchestration? Try it now through the Google Cloud Marketplace with a free trial! Installation is straightforward; learn more here.