With virtualization and server consolidation being so important in today's market place, there tends to be a lot of integrated servers residing on a single hosted system. Understanding all the pieces to an integrated server is important when recovering the entire system from a disaster or when recreating a server that was affected by a virus.

This session will discuss the important steps required to backup and recover the integrated servers including Windows on IXS, Linux on IXS or LPAR, and AIX in LPAR. Plus some tips on how to duplicate a server which is useful in testing development level code or service packs without affecting production level servers.

By the end of the session attendees, will understand:
1. All the components of an integrated server that must be saved.
2. How to restore the components to rebuild a server.
3. Duplicate existing servers to be used as test machines.