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Assignment 1: Disaster Recovery PlanDue Week 6 and worth 120 points
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.
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