Abstract: Techniques for managing a disaster recovery failover policy are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for managing a disaster recovery failover policy comprising identifying which of several disaster recovery sites are available for disaster recovery of host data, determining a configuration of each disaster recovery site identified, performing at least one test on each disaster recovery site identified, calculating a result from the at least one test performed on each disaster recovery site, and updating the disaster recovery failover policy based on the determined configuration and the calculated result.

Abstract: Various systems and methods can provide application-aware high availability of virtual machines. For example, one method involves receiving information indicating a state of an application executing in a virtual machine. The information is received by a computing device implementing a virtual machine monitoring agent that is monitoring the virtual machine. In response to receiving the information, the method determines whether the virtual machine should be restarted, based at least in part on the state of the application executing in the virtual machine. The method then generates information indicating whether the virtual machine should be restarted, in response to making the determination.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for proactively monitoring data center health data to achieve workload management and high availability is provided. In one embodiment, a method for processing application health data to improve application performance within a cluster includes accessing at least one of performance data or event information associated with at least one application to determine application health data and examining the application health data to identify an application of the at least one application to migrate.