Introducing Veeam Recovery Orchestrator. Radical Resilience to Keep Your Business Running
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator is sophisticated software crafted to simplify and take control of disaster recovery proceedings with utmost ease. It lays down a trustworthy and swift structure at your fingertips for coordinating the revival of virtual settings—virtually leaving no room for prolonged operational pauses or severe data loss when calamity strikes. The core strength of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator lies in its ability to create, document, test, and execute recovery plans with precision.
Marrying effortlessly with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator gives you the power to govern restorative actions right from your backups and replicas. Thanks to this integration, critical data, applications, and services can be quickly and effectively restored to their original or new locations, maintaining business continuity.
The Incredible Value Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Delivers:
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Enhanced Business Continuity: Before Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, businesses often faced prolonged downtimes due to inefficient disaster recovery processes, leading to significant revenue and productivity losses. The Orchestrator automates and streamlines disaster recovery, ensuring rapid and reliable restoration of critical data and services. This results in minimized downtime, safeguarding business operations and maintaining continuous customer service.
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Assured Recovery Plan Effectiveness: Traditionally, testing disaster recovery plans could be complex and disruptive, creating uncertainties in their effectiveness. Veeam Recovery Orchestrator offers non-disruptive, automated testing of recovery plans, providing businesses with the confidence that they can recover from disasters swiftly and efficiently. This assurance leads to enhanced compliance with disaster recovery policies and bolsters stakeholder confidence in the organization's resilience.
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Optimized IT Efficiency and Compliance: Without the Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, managing and documenting disaster recovery processes was often cumbersome and prone to human error, hindering compliance with internal and external standards. The Orchestrator simplifies the creation, documentation, and execution of recovery plans, enhancing IT operational efficiency. This optimization reduces the workload on IT staff and ensures adherence to stringent compliance requirements, thereby improving overall business governance.
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Capabilities
- One-Click Recovery - Effortlessly recover individual applications or entire sites from any location with just one click from the web interface.
- Automated Testing - Conduct non-disruptive disaster recovery tests, scheduled on-demand, to make sure your desired RTOs and RPOs are achievable
- Application Verification - Confirm that your common enterprise applications are functioning correctly post-recovery.
- Dynamic Documentation - Generate and create disaster recovery documentation automatically to prove readiness and compliance.
- Planned Failover Without Disruption - Verified and carefully orchestrated recovery for times when you need to strategize and execute failover without disrupting the critical workloads that drive your business.
- Automated Cloud Recover Validation - Get your time back by automating manual post-recovery tasks when recovering an on-premises workload into Microsoft Azure.
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Components
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator's architecture revolves around the Orchestrator Server, which communicates with Veeam Backup & Replication to manage recovery operations from backups and replicas. This server is responsible for the orchestration of all disaster recovery processes, including the execution of pre-defined recovery plans. Administrators interact with the Orchestrator through the Veeam Orchestrator Web UI, which allows for creating, modifying, and monitoring recovery plans.
Veeam Backup & Recovery Server
This VBR server manages the backup and replication of data. It works in tandem with the Recovery Orchestrator to ensure data is available for recovery processes.
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Agent
The Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Agent sits on the Veeam Backup & Replication Server and acts as a communication bridge between Veeam Backup & Replication and Recovery Orchestrator servers, facilitating data flow and command execution. It collects backup and replication data, helps execute recovery plans, monitors system health, and updates recovery plans based on configuration changes. This agent ensures efficient, up-to-date disaster recovery and compliance reporting.
Veeam Orchestrator Server Service
The Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Server Service acts as the central engine of Veeam Orchestrator, performing several key functions:
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Orchestration and Automation: Central to automating disaster recovery steps, this service ensures orderly and precise execution of recovery plans with minimal manual intervention.
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Plan Management and Execution: Manages and executes recovery plans, coordinating failover and failback processes in alignment with predefined triggers and parameters.
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Integration with Veeam Backup & Replication: Seamlessly integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication, utilizing backups and replicas for efficient and cohesive disaster recovery.
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Reporting and Compliance: Generates essential reports on recovery processes, providing insights for auditing, compliance, and refining disaster recovery strategies.
SQL Server
A Microsoft SQL Server Express instance can be installed locally. However, for best performance and scalability, Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition is recommended, which may be a remote server. This is used to host configuration data.
Veeam Orchestrator Web UI
The Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Web UI is a web-based interface designed for system administrators to efficiently manage and interact with Veeam Recovery Orchestrator's functionalities. Key aspects include:
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Plan Management and Monitoring: Enables creation, editing, and monitoring of recovery plans, with capabilities to initiate and test plans, and view their status and history.
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Reporting and Analytics: Provides essential reporting tools for generating detailed reports on disaster recovery compliance, execution history, and testing outcomes.
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Integration and Configuration: Allows for seamless configuration and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication and other systems, ensuring effective recovery plan execution.
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Real-time Notifications and Alerts: Delivers instant updates and alerts on the disaster recovery environment, crucial for quick issue resolution and system health monitoring.
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Accessibility and Security: Accessible remotely, the Web UI ensures controlled and secure access to disaster recovery plans and data, maintaining flexibility and data protection.
Veeam One Server (Embedded)
This is a custom lightweight edition of Veeam ONE. It is referred to as an "embedded" server. If a license is applied, the server can work as a fully functional Veeam ONE server. This handles the Veeam ONE Business View engine to gather inventory.
Veeam Backup & Replication Server (Embedded)
Components of the Backup & Replication Server are installed with the Orchestrator Server to supply Veeam PowerShell libraries and support certain disaster recovery scenarios. It is referred to as an "embedded" server. If a license is applied, the server can work as a fully functional Veeam Backup & Replication server.