Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5

Business impact analysis (BIA)

BC must identify all business functions within an organization, and then assign a critical level to each of them. A business impact and risks analysis should be the primary method for gathering this information and, in most cases, it's part of the design phase. Each risk should be assigned a reasonable and critical means to minimize its impact and define a correct recovery point objective, a recovery time objective, and of course, an entire plan to handle this risk.

BIA can be used to identify the extent and timescale of the impact on different levels of an organization. For instance, it can examine the effect of disruption on the operational, functional, and strategic activities of an organization. Aside from ...