Cold site recovery

A cold site recovery can be daunting, especially for a large complex system like Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation. At a minimum, you have to procure, install, and configure all the hardware equipment needed by the application ranging from network equipment, load balancers, mid-tier and database nodes, SAN, cabling for the SAN, and so forth.

Next, you have to install and configure all the system software ranging from the operating system, database management system, application server, Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation, and so forth. It is critically important that the software version and release, and even the same fix packs be installed the same as the primary data center. Installing different software versions may result in unexpected behavior.

Next, you have to configure the environment. At a minimum, this includes:

After the infrastructure and environment is available:

A cold site recovery could easily take days.