Patent ID: 8234515

Claim:
A system comprising: a reconfiguration manager operable to reconfigure a repurposable recovery environment between a recovery environment for a production environment and a second environment different from the recovery environment; and a storage system in the repurposable recovery environment, the storage system periodically saving production information from the production environment while the repurposable recovery environment is operating as the second environment, wherein the production information in the storage system is used to reconfigure the repurposable recovery environment from the second environment to the recovery environment, and the reconfiguration manager detects a failure of the production environment, saves, in the storage system, information currently being used by servers in the repurposable recovery environment operating for the second environment, shuts down the servers, and reboots the servers using at least one operating system in the storage system, wherein the at least one operating system is different than an operating system used for the second environment, and the rebooted servers are configured to run the at least one operating system used to reboot the servers and execute applications from the production environment.