Disaster Recovery

Hi,

Depending on what level of DR complexity you need  two ways you could do this:

1. Use VBR to backup your VMs and restore them in Azure when necessary, this is the simple one with less functionality
2.  Use VRO to create a cloud plan to recover to Azure and define all testing and reconfiguration ahead of time so when you need to DR you just execute the plan

Hi

Comparing apples with apples, if you want to do a backup from a Physical server with an agent, Veeam Agent for windows allows you to make a backup locally, USB Disk, Veeam Cloud Connect Partner, S3 Storage, etc. (the agent must be licensed for some options described before)

Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore that backup in the cloud you chosen, and you should be go to go.

If you are looking for a “real DR plan”, as @MicoolPaul said, VRO will be your choise to create a plan to execute easily pre configured/orchestrated.

cheers.

@HunterLAFR @MicoolPaul Thanks ..The VRO and VBR is different product for Veeam ? 

VBR → Veeam Backup and Replication

VRO → Veeam Recorey Orchestrator

check this, it might help you a little bit

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/cloud/cloud_replication.html?ver=120

they are different products, you need VBR to then create your Recovery Plan with VRO

if you are able to work with vms and réplicas, you should be able to create a “Failover Plan” to be executed in case of emergency.

but to provide you better information and understanding, you should describe a bit more your infra and need.

cheers.

Hi, so VRO used to be a separately licensed product but it’s in the premium edition of the Veeam Data Platform. You’d need to speak to your partner/account manager to confirm if it can still be licensed standalone.

Veeam Data Platform Foundation gives you purely VBR, Advanced gives you VBR and VONE (a monitoring/analytics/reporting solution if you’ve not seen it), and premium gives you VBR, VONE, and VRO (Veeam Recovery Orchestrator).

So it’s just a license tieirng thing.

How about Azure Tenant what are the thing we need to subscribe ? 

On the Azure side you don’t need to subscribe to anything, just have an Azure Subscription active that you configure within VBR/VRO to perform your restores into. Any network connectivity you can pre-configure using Azure native tooling such as ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPNs etc.

The beauty of Veeam is flexibility.  If you want to replicate to another location that you have, such as a second datacenter, remote office, etc, you can do that.  If you want to replicate to a hyperscaler such as Azure, AWS or CGP, you can.  If you want to replicate to a Veeam Cloud Connect (VCC) provider such as 11:11 Systems (Iland) or similar, you can.  If you want to copy backup data to an object storage provider such as Wasabi or Backblaze B2 or 11:11 Systems Object Storage and then rehydrate your backup data to VM’s and run them somewhere in the cloud using services like Cloud IBR or Opti9, you can.  But it comes down to what you expect to pay for having those services on tap and ready to go, and what you will need to pay to utilize those services.  The beauty of Veeam is flexibility, or as they call it, Data Freedom.  You have options.

As for me, most of my clients replicate to a remote location, but I do have some customers that don’t have a second location to replicate to.  I have two clients that are in the beginning of or middle of projects to replicate data to 11:11 Systems and pay to have DRaaS capabilities on their infrastructure.  I’m still reviewing options of Cloud IBR and Opti9 with data rehydration - but note that the RTO (and likely RPO) is going to be higher for that configuration because the backups need to be rehydrated/restored into VM’s.

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Hi @Eminet_Anthony Veeam provides cloud DR options comparable to acronis and azure through Veeam cloud connect and its partnerships with DRaaS providers. These solutions facilitate workload protection and failover to cloud environments with the ability to run VMs in the cloud during disasters similar to the approach of activating EC2 instances in AWS or VMs in azure as well.

Cloud Instant Backup Recovery could be a good choice here too. It takes your Veeam backups of ESXi stored in Backblaze B2 object storage and allows you to quickly restore ESXi to Bare Metal Cloud infrastructure without the upfront DR costs.

Here is a Veeam Tech Bites that explains how it works a bit further.