A collection of virtual or physical machines, created through categorisation in the embedded Veeam ONE server, from which recovery plans are assembled.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains inventory group in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Physical
Describes the concrete, real-world parts that put a logical architecture into effect.
- Veeam ONE Server
Heart of the product: it gathers information from hypervisors and Veeam backup servers, then writes it to the database. Installing it also brings the Monitoring and Reporting services, the Web API and the Veeam Analytics service.
- Recovery plans
Azure Site Recovery capability for automating failover, covering the grouping and sequence of machines and any scripts.
Related terms
- post-plan steps
A built-in group found in each recovery plan, holding steps that run once every inventory group has been recovered. You can add or remove its steps but not move the group.
- pre-plan steps
A built-in group found in each recovery plan, holding steps that get the recovery environment ready before any inventory group is processed. You can add or remove its steps but not move the group.
- Protect VM Group
Lets a newly added inventory group be covered once recovery finishes, by generating a backup or replication job from a template. Where the plan uses replicas, that job waits for PERMANENT FAILOVER before it runs.