High Availability & Disaster Recovery Services

Keep critical databases online—no matter what happens.

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Why House of Brick

  • 20+ years safeguarding Oracle, SQL Server & PostgreSQL across on-prem, VMware, AWS, Azure, OCI, and Nutanix.
  • License-smart designs that meet your RPO/RTO targets without triggering extra Oracle or Microsoft fees
  • Cloud & virtualization pioneers. We wrote the playbook for translating on-prem HA/DR into cloud and hybrid models.
  • Proven drills and failover runbooks validated on multi-terabyte workloads

Engagement Framework

Phase Key Activities Outcomes
Assess Current-state review of platforms, replication methods, SLAs, and license position Gap and risk matrix
Design Future-state architecture for HA clusters, standby sites, and cloud regions—right-sized for licensing Detailed topology diagrams
Build & Migrate Configure replication (Data Guard, Always On, RAC, EC2/RDS Multi-AZ, Nutanix AHV, etc.) and execute cut-over Verified primary / standby sync
Validate & Drill Controlled failover tests, performance tuning, documentation hand-off Auditable runbooks & drill reports
Run (Optional) Ongoing managed support for monitoring, patching, and quarterly DR exercises 24×7 assurance & optimization

What We Cover

  • Architectures: Active-active, active-standby, multi-region, hybrid cloud
  • Technologies: Oracle Data Guard, Oracle RAC, SQL Server Always On AG, PostgreSQL streaming, VMware SRM, Nutanix Leap, cloud-native replicas
  • Platforms: On-prem x86, VMware, AWS (EC2, RDS, Aurora), Azure SQL, OCI, Google Cloud, Nutanix AHV/NC2
  • Complementary Services: Performance tuning, license optimization, audit defense

Deliverables

  • Current-state & future-state HA/DR diagrams
  • Config-by-config failover runbook
  • License impact & cost model
  • RPO/RTO validation report
  • Executive summary slide deck with findings and next steps

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