You can read more about the VAO v3 announcement here. With the addition of Restore Plans in v2, we started calling everything an Orchestration Plan, which was a good move, because in VAO v3 a new type of plan was introduced, which is the Storage Orchestration Plan. You can find a step by step guide to creating a Restore Plan in VAO here. This makes DR obtainable for a wider variety of applications, and uses the same wizard everyone got used to in v1. In VAO v2, Restore Plans were introduced, allowing organizations to restore virtual machines from backups with the same powerful engine as replicas.
I have showed demonstrations of how easy this is to create – it only takes about five minutes! This blog is a step by step guide of how to create a Replica Plan. As of VAO v3, there are three types of Orchestration Plans: It is your step by step plan as to what happens to your Virtual Machines during a failover. Creating Disaster Recovery Plans, The Orchestration PlanĪn Orchestration Plan is a big deal in Veeam Availability Orchestrator. Be sure to get up to speed with the blog Understanding VAO Terminology.
There is also a number of terms we use with Veeam Availability Orchestrator such as Failover Plan and VM Group. Luckily, my first Veeam Whitepaper called Technical Overview of Veeam Availability Orchestrator with Veeam Backup and Replication is hot off the presses, and explains everything. Veeam Availability Orchestrator leverages Veeam Backup and Replication under the covers as a source for virtual machine replicas, and to start a Veeam Data Lab. Veeam Availabilty Orchestrator Under the Covers
If you are going to be taking advantage of the 30 day free trial of VAO, be sure to read both of those articles.
Next, I have my first round of Getting Started Tips, which covers the following topics: Need help getting started with them? Check out The Amazing Power of vSphere Tags Right Here. This content all about getting started with Veeam Availability Orchestrator.įirst and foremost, the best way to tell Veeam Availability Orchestrator what to protect is to use VMware vSphere Tags. Getting Started With Veeam Availability Orchestrator Veeam Availability Orchestrator is very easy to use, and this content makes it even easier to get up and running in no time at all. This post is going to round up everything I have written about Veeam Availability Orchestrator, and will constantly updated as I write more. It also automatically generates customizable documentation you can have sent to key stakeholders like application owners and executives. Veeam Availability Orchestrator makes it easy to create detailed Failover Plans to protect your VMware vSphere Virtual Machines and applications. Since joining Veeam, I have worked extensively with one of the newest products Veeam has to offer called Veeam Availability Orchestrator, or VAO.