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Started by routerdork, February 03, 2016, 08:19:16 AM

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routerdork

February 03, 2016, 08:19:16 AM
Anyone gone forward with this and used it for anything? Got asked by my boss yesterday what I thought about using this as our DR rather than the second DC we pay for each month. In our case barely anything will run at the DR site less the firewall and a couple servers until SHTF so pricing wise it looks like it could work for us.
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deanwebb

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February 03, 2016, 08:51:51 AM
We are using AWS as a sort of co-location / secondary DR site.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
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routerdork

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February 03, 2016, 09:07:07 AM
How is it working for you? Read something yesterday about them not supporting the higher throughput ASAv's, how are you guys getting around that? Our thought right now is that we would need to run several of them if we had to do it or else stick with FortiGate that looks to be supported.
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deanwebb

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February 03, 2016, 09:18:03 AM
Don't know that part. I just know that we got some connections to them.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Dieselboy

#4
March 15, 2016, 11:07:41 PM
I manage the infra. for a software company. Our product is being deployed across AWS as a web application front end. And about a billion other intricate back-end things. As it's still being developed my sys. Admin has gone as far to make automatic scripts to pull it all down COB on Friday and re-deploy on Monday. Saving us about 1/3 of a year in costs (2 days per week x 52 = 104 days).

In terms of DR, how big can you go with AWS? Are you using IPSEC VPN's to link to the "DR"? I think I would prefer to have a physical DR that is locked up and away from other peoples access. But AWS would be more convenient in some aspects.

routerdork

#5
March 16, 2016, 09:00:32 AM
We're a software provider as well. We would mainly be backing things up and hoping we didn't have to use it. I too would prefer something physical I could drive to. We are currently in a third-party DC that has been great but for something that is rarely used we were just looking at cheaper options that would still be reliable. With the exception of a few servers for backups nothing else would run 24/7. We would have a virtual router and/or firewall running as well as possibly an F5 (we are working out the kinks on those now for deployment). We aren't going to rush into it anytime soon. I think the last timeline was maybe 2 years out. And at that time it would be some basic things that we could test and slowly migrate things into it.
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Nerm

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March 16, 2016, 10:27:00 PM
I can't speak to AWS specifically, but we use the Microsoft Azure platform for some of our DR plan.

max4humanity

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March 17, 2016, 02:59:24 AM
What is DR please

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GeorgeS

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March 17, 2016, 06:48:01 AM
Quote from: max4humanity on March 17, 2016, 02:59:24 AM
What is DR please

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disaster recovery

max4humanity

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March 20, 2016, 11:09:16 AM
Thanks So Much @GeorgeS

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