Disaster Recovery set-up for SharePoint 2013

Hi,
We are migrating our SP2010 application to SP2013. It would be on-premise setup using virtual environment.
To handle disaster recovery situation, it has been planned to have two identical farms (active, passive) hosted in two different  datacenters.
I have prior knowledge of disaster recovery only at the content DB level.
My Question is how do we make two farm identical and how do we keep Database of both the farm always in sync.
Also if a custom solution is pushed into one of the farm, how does it replicate to the other farm.
Can someone please help me in understanding this D/R situation. 
Thanks,
Rahul

Metalogix Replicator will replicate content, but nothing below the Web Application level (you'd still have to configure the SAs, Central Admin settings, deploy solutions, etc.).
While AlwaysOn is a good choice, do remember that ASync AO is not supported across all of SharePoint's databases (see
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj841106.aspx). LogShipping is a good choice, especially with content databases as they can be placed in a read only mode on the DR farm for an
active crawl to be completed against them.
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