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DR (Diaster Recovery) Environment set up for Production CRM 2011 System

Cloning the production servers and changing the names of the CRM servers is not going to be the best method for creating a DR environment for  CRM deployment as the CRM servers cannot be cloned under different names. 

There are two options, one is to create a completely separate CRM environment at which point databases are restore and CRM can be reinstalled to if needed.  The other is a standby environment where CRM is already installed to the DR app servers and you’d only need to move SQL server.  This blog post discusses both opotions: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6404.dynamics-crm-4-0-disaster-recovery.aspx

Our option was to  Restore Database onto a stand-by environment  Here the DR CRM app servers are ready to go, to use it the SQL databases would need to be restored and the Database Connection would need to be updated.

The Restore Databases and Join servers to existing organization option, this creates an entirely separate DR CRM Deployment.  When the time comes to switch to DR, the databases would need to be restore, edited, and CRM installed to existing databases.