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Hi Guys,

Amidst all my reading, prior experience with earlier versions of Veeam, Buexec, other related apps, trials and errors, its never too much or late to learn in the field of IT, especially from the experts, “Knowledge is never constant, only dynamic”. 

It has been a while, was so busy, Veeam is working like a charm. 

Note case below for a HYPER-V environment:

  1. Veeam BR 12 is at location A running fine
  2. Same BR 12 is at B doing nothing lol
  3. Location A is at HQ, fast bandwidth
  4. Location A & B are linked via WAN over “not so fast connection”
  5. Cloud backup was/is already used as offsite DR where important VMs/files are being backed up ( i came to this place and observed this)

How can i use/setup Location B as a DR site/failover/redundancy?

Can i also use location B to mirror exactly what is in Location A, if so, what is the process/best method?

Your EXPERT GUIDANCE would be greatly appreciated as usual

 

 

Hi @SysEng -

Eezy-peezy. Set up your Location B VBR Server to solely be used for Replication. If you have a vSphere or Hyper-V environment at Location A, just setup your DR side to replicate those VMs from our “CO” site over to DR. The Replicas are basically powered-off VMs at your DR site ready to be powered on *by the Veeam Server* in the event something happens at your CO site (Location A). Restore Points on those VMs are basically just historical snapshots. All you need to do is make sure you have networking (VLANs, Internet, routing, etc) setup at your DR (Location 😎 so those VMs can be accessed. I have this very setup myself.

Read more about Replication below:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/replication.html

I also wrote an ‘overview’ post on Replication a couple yrs ago. You can reference it below:

 

Also note that you can have the backup server located at site B, just make sure you have your repo and proxy server at Site A to process all of that data locally.  That will allow the VBR server to survive a site outage a site A which is why Shane recommended the replication server live at Site B.  But that said, if you split between two servers, you should also be using a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server to manage both of the VBR servers.  I prefer for now to have the VBR server sit at the recovery site to orchestrate everything from there and just have one server.  Personal preference really.

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