Patent ID: 8001414

Claim:
A system comprising: (a) a primary server at a first location, the primary server comprising: (i) a server imaging module to generate an image of the primary server, the image providing a complete state of the primary server and convertible to a virtual machine configured to replace the primary server; and (ii) a primary computer-readable storage to store the image of the primary server generated by the server imaging module; (b) an attached computer-readable storage device comprising: (i) an attached computer-readable storage to store the image of the primary server; and (ii) an attached physical-to-virtual conversion module configured to convert the image of the primary server to a virtual machine; and (c) a remote server at a second location remote from the first location, the remote server comprising: (i) a remote computer-readable storage to store the image of the primary server; and (ii) a remote physical-to-virtual conversion module configured to perform at least one of: converting the image of the primary server to a virtual machine, and receiving a pre-converted primary server image wherein the remote server is configured to execute the virtual machine converted from the image of the primary server to replace the primary server only after a failure of the primary server.