Figure 2: On-premises with recovery to the cloud.

Overview

For organizations operating VMware-based on-premises data centers, ensuring that critical workloads can survive a site-level disruption—and resume operation rapidly in an alternative environment—is a foundational requirement of any mature IT strategy. JetStream DR addresses this need by enabling a fully cloud-integrated Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) model, combining the economics of cloud object storage with the compute power of a cloud-hosted VMware environment to deliver a resilient, cost-effective, and operationally simple DR solution.

Key Benefits of This Use Case

Eliminate the cost of a dedicated DR site. By leveraging cloud object storage and an on-demand cloud VMware environment, organizations avoid the capital expense of maintaining a fully provisioned secondary data center that sits idle under normal conditions.

Pay only for what you use. Cloud object storage is highly cost-efficient, and compute resources in the cloud recovery environment are only consumed during an actual failover or test event—making this model significantly more economical than traditional active-active or warm standby DR architectures.

No data loss, no service interruption. Continuous replication before, during, and after a failover event—combined with live failback—ensures that the organization's data is always fully protected and that business operations are never unnecessarily disrupted.

Operational simplicity. The entire DR lifecycle—from initial configuration and ongoing monitoring, to failover, cloud operation, and failback—is managed through JetStream DR's native vCenter plug-in, keeping operations simple and familiar for VMware administrators without requiring specialized DR expertise or dedicated DR management platforms.