Veeam's product for automating disaster recovery to vSphere, Hyper-V and Azure. It relies on Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE, and offers recovery plans, automatic readiness checks, DataLab testing and compliance reports as part of Veeam Data Platform.
Also called VRO, Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator.
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Terms in this definition
- DR
Disaster recovery means getting a service running again from another region or site, with success judged by RPO and RTO; uptime SLAs and data retention are different concerns.
- vSphere
VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
- Hyper-V
The hypervisor built into Windows. The VMs for the Azure Extended Network appliance require the Hyper-V role, using nested virtualisation, and an external virtual switch for each NIC.
- Veeam ONE
A standalone Veeam product that monitors and reports on Veeam Backup & Replication and virtual environments in real time and documents them for the business. It can also measure how quickly VMs change, which helps with sizing.
- Recovery plans
Azure Site Recovery capability for automating failover, covering the grouping and sequence of machines and any scripts.
- DataLab
An isolated sandbox for rehearsing plans, based on a virtual lab in Veeam Backup & Replication. Orchestrator boots machines there, runs plan steps and application checks, then reports on the outcome.
- Veeam Data Platform
Veeam's set of products and licensing editions. Running Orchestrator requires VDP Premium, or VDP Advanced plus extra Orchestrator licences, since Veeam ONE is not covered by VDP Foundation.
Related terms
- Configuration properties
Settings in VCF Operations orchestrator, edited through System Settings or
vracli vro properties set. Add-nto stop the service restarting, as it otherwise does after each change. - template job
An existing backup or replication job tagged [VRO Template] in its description field. When reprotecting recovered machines, Orchestrator clones everything from it apart from guest processing into a brand-new job.