Where to start with recovery after disaster

We start making a disaster recovery plan for the data center.  We have a small failry installation using vSphere 4.1 Enterprise with 6 hosts (blades) and about 30 vms, Windows, Linux, and Netware running on an IBM BladeCenter S.  The BladeCenter S shared storage in the chassis, and we also have a storage DS3300 iSCSI array.  In the event that something happens to this building we want to be able to bring our most important vms (~ 12 of them, the others will be restored from backup but not immediately) upwards to another place which is connected to this construction over a fiber of 1 GB connection.  We do not necessarily expect to provide the same level of service, just that our basic services are available.

I understand this is a major project that can be answered in a forum, but I don't know where to start, if someone could point me in the right direction or give me some ideas, I would be happy.

You need to take a look at the Site Recovery Manager. SRM is unfortunately not the whole solution, you also need the level of the SAN for this replication.

If you storage does not support it or it's too expensive - you have the option to upgrade to vSphere 5 and use the replication host + RS.

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