Case Study: Sunbelt Rentals achieves flexible disaster recovery with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery and Hyper-V

Rental Company Uses Virtualization to Establish Flexible Disaster Recovery Solution

Sunbelt Rentals, a US-based equipment rental company, faced the challenge of establishing a reliable disaster recovery solution to ensure its around-the-clock services remained uninterrupted. To mitigate this risk, they wanted to create a colocation facility but needed a cost-effective approach. They turned to Microsoft Corporation to leverage its virtualization and recovery technologies.

Microsoft provided a solution built on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V and Hyper-V Replica, managed by Microsoft System Center and coordinated with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. With consulting help from Microsoft Services, this implementation provided Sunbelt with an affordable and flexible disaster recovery plan. The solution increased IT staff efficiency by enabling remote management, offered the flexibility to easily replicate servers, and provided significant cost savings under their existing Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.

Sunbelt Rentals

David Booher

Director of Enterprise Infrastructure