Before you rush out and hire a consultant or try to do this yourself, you have to come up with detailed real requirements for what your HA/DR solution is supposed to accomplish.

So go to your VP and sit down with him and other stake holder in whatever runs on your db systems and hammer out the requirements.

Only once you have that can you begin to try to figure out what the appropriate/best solution is.

HA isn't something you stand up just because your VP thinks it is what all the cool IT mangers are doing these days.