Veeam Availability Orchestrator – Managed DR Solution

Veeam is known for Backup and Replication , Monitoring solutions and workload management products.The most recent offerings from Veeam is “Veeam Availability Orchestrator”  (VAO ) for Managed disaster recovery. VAO supports VMware vSphere 5.x & 6.x environments which occupies 90% of data-centers in the world.  VAO satisfies  compliance requirements with automated documentation that makes it easy to build and update the DR plan as the environment changes. It’s reducing costs through automated DR plan testing and readiness checks that avoid expensive manual processes with zero impact on production systems.

Note: Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO)  depends on the native replication functionality in Veeam Backup & Replication to ensure Availability of all your mission-critical applications in VMware vSphere environments.

 

 

Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO ) environment compromises the following key components.

• Veeam Availability Orchestrator Server
• VMware vCenter Server
• Veeam Backup & Replication Server

 

System requirements:

VAO components can be install and configured on below listed operating systems.

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

 

Currently VAO supports only the below listed virtualization platform.

• VMware vSphere 5.x & 6.x environments

 

 

 

In Disaster recovery solutions , we will be mostly talking about two sites. In VAO term , site doesn’t needs to be two different physical locations. It’s just logical classification in VAO term. Every installed VAO server defines a site.

1.PRODUCTION  Site

Production site is the site where source production VMs are located.

2.DR Site.  

DR site is the site where VM replicas are located, and where failover plans are created, stored, tested and  executed using VAO.

VAO must be installed and configured on each sites to sync the VM inventory and manage the PROD plans.

 

Deployment Modes:

VAO supports two type of deployment models.

1. Simple Deployment Mode
2. Advanced Deployment Mode

 

Deployment Scenarios:

• Scenario 1: Single-Server Production Installation or Proof of Concept Deployment
• Scenario 2: One Production Site, One DR Site
• Scenario 3: Multiple Production Sites, One DR Site
• Scenario 4: Active–Active Protection

 

Let’s look at the  most common scenario.

One Production Site, One DR Site:

In this deployment scenario, VAO sites have DR VAO server which provides failover plan management, testing and execution. Production VAO server which collects data on the VM inventory and sends this data to the VAO server in the DR site. Veeam Backup & Replication server which handles replication jobs and is used for failover orchestration.

The diagram below illustrates the deployment scenario with two VAO sites: one DR site, and one Production site.

 

Hope this article gives insight of Veeam’s VAO product.  VAO is just workflow management solution and it works with Veeam native backup and replication solution to make the “Disaster Recovery” as simple job. It reduces the downtime , Satisfy compliance requirements and  avoids expensive readiness manual processes.

 

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