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One of the requests that Chris was telling me about was very interesting.

Chris was at one of the project update meetings, and everything was going fine as I understand it, until the AOB part came, any other business.

“Yes” said the nice application manager

“I want disaster recovery for my UAT, can we have this set up please? What do you need?”

Now there was as I understand it silence, pardon, UAT disaster recovery, but I mean, in a disaster situation your developers will be at home, you wont need UAT was the reply, casually very politely.  At that point it got emotional.

IT don’t pay the developers costs. They know the developers are expensive, but continue to focus on production, keeping everything working for the end user, if a developer looses access to testing, it’s not critical to the business, it will get dealt with, but typically not as a priority.  After further conversation, what was required was not a disaster recovery solution for UAT,  merely some systems that were available to add capacity to existing UAT and act as a standby if the existing UAT environment failed.

One thing to consider though, as we’ve seen with the different disasters all over the globe is the following, what if you as a bank were involved in a disaster type scenario, long term say the building was deemed unsafe, where asbestos was found during some re-decorating or hurricane damage.
What kind of environments do you see you requiring? I mean wont you at some point need a regression or some form of UAT in a bcp situation in order to test/replicate production issues?  Do tools like vmware not make this a real possibility?

A DL585, or a couple of blades per business line as a bcp UAT environment in the grand scale of things is going to add marginal cost to your infrastructure costs, marginal heat generation and power requirements. Think what you need for your business, your application, as I understand it from the developers, you can never have too large a development/UAT environment.

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