Product Overview
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator allows for a much larger and broader way to perform BCDR and ransomware verifications. It too lets you validate your disaster recovery environment without impacting the production infrastructure. Furthermore, it provides automation and scheduling of tests and reports.
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator works with Agent Backup Jobs, Virtual Backup Jobs, Backup Copy Jobs, Replication Jobs, and SAN Integration.
It's important to understand there are three core components that make up the Veeam Recovery Orchestrator solution. These can be deployed on the same server or on different servers. It may be applicable to utilize a full version of SQL server depending on size and availability.
Components
- Veeam Orchestrator Server Service is responsible for managing orchestration plans and administering user roles and permissions
- Veeam Orchestrator Web UI is a web-based user interface that allows users to interact with the Veeam Orchestrator Server service
- SQL Server is used to host configuration data, VM inventory, and plan definitions. A Microsoft SQL Server Express instance can be installed locally with other Orchestrator components. However, for best performance and scalability, Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition is recommended, which may be a remote server
Additional Supporting Components:
- Veeam Backup & Replication Server (embedded) is included in the Orchestrator server to supply Veeam PowerShell libraries and support certain DR scenarios
- Veeam ONE Server (embedded) handles the ONE Business View engine to gather VM inventory. This is a custom lightweight edition of Veeam ONE that should not be used for other monitoring or reporting functions
- Veeam Orchestrator Agents are deployed on Veeam components such as Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Backup Enterprise Management servers. These agents are used to synchronize data with the Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Server
Note: Veeam Recovery Orchestrator uses the failover and data recovery functionality provided by Veeam Backup & Replication to automate recovery actions taken in case of software or hardware malfunction. In addition, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator supports recovery orchestration based on replicated storage snapshots created on storage systems (currently NetApp ONTAP and HPE Primera (3PAR)). Certain aspects of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator are unavailable in VMware Cloud Offering.
Supported Veeam Recovery & Failover:
- Backup
- Backup Copy
- Replication
- VMware CDP
- Storage Snapshots
- Agent backups
Suggested resources:
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator utilizes two different User Guides to facilitate the setup and configuration of the product
- Deployment Guide: referenced during product deployment.
- Group Management Guide: used for categorizing infrastructure objects into groups.
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