The DR plan is a sum of more Orchestration plans. This article is going to explain how to create them.
Just a small and important note before continuing: it’s mandatory to have already completed the steps described in the last article.
Let’s start!
From the main menu of the VAO server select the Manage button.
Now click on New as shown in picture 1.
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The easy wizard is going to ask to choose a scope.
In our example, we use Linux-CDP as shown in picture 2.
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Now fill up the plan info with the Plan Name, the description, the contact name of the plan (picture 3),
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Select the type of Plans. In this article choose the CDP replica (picture 4)
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In the next step please check if the correct “VM Group” appears.
If it doesn’t, it’s necessary to go back to the setup phase (please read the previous article) and fix the issue.
In our example, it appears correctly (Ubuntu-CDP) as shown in the next two pictures (5 and 6).
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The next step shows the VM Recovery options (picture 7).
It gives the operator control of the plan. For example, stopping the plan if something goes wrong.
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In “New VM Template” menu the VAO user can add additional steps to the orchestration process; for example, starting the CDP replica job first and shut down the source VMafter (Picture 8)
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Tips I: I created a customized script to change the IP Address of the VM.
Tips II: it’s possible to set up the accesscredential directly from this page by clicking the button on the bottom of the page. It is available for Windows VM only.
The next step defines the RTO & RPO.
The most important thing to remember here is that the RPO has to be equal or major than the RPO set in the CDP replica job (picture 9).
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The last steps define when the plan report shall be automatically generated (picture 10) and if the readiness check has to run at the end of every single wizard (recommended option) (picture 11).
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The result is shown in picture 12
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The next article is going to be a video to see VDrO in action.
In this article, I’m going to show you how to set up an orchestration plan using as a source a CDP replica Job.
This article will not cover how to create and run a CDP replica job from VBR console. If you need a guide please refer to the official guide.
There are four main parts:
Create a Business Category
Setup the Environment
Create an Orchestration Plan
Launch the Orchestration Plan
The first and the second topics will be described in this article. The third and the fourth ones in the next articles.
A. To create a business category for CDP replica, just open the Veeam ONE interface from the VAO server (picture 1).
In this example, the business category is called Ubuntu-CDP , the resource group is called CDP-Linux (Picture 2).
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B. After opening the VAO web interface it’s necessary to follow the next four steps.
1. Add a Role and Scope (picture 3).
In my example, the scope is named Linux-CDP.
The plan Author/Operator is VBR.
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2. Add or modify the Recovery Location (picture 4).
In my example, the recovery location is Verderio and has the Cluster-Verderio as Compute resource (Picture 5).
Pictures 6 and 7 show how to remap the Networking and how to set up the changing IP address rules.
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Note1: The Re-IP feature is available just for Windows VMs (please have a look at the official documentation to get all detail (user guide). For Linux VMs it’s necessary creating a custom script.
3. Reporting
Pictures 8, 9 and 10 show how to assign the Linux-CDP scope to your custom reports.
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4. Assign the plan Components
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Picture 12 shows how to add the VM group called Ubuntu-CDP to the scope Linux-CDP.
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Picture 13 shows how to add a recovery location, i.e. Verderio.
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Picture 14 shows how to add the plan steps to the orchestration plan (In my example I included all the plan steps).
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The next article shows how to create an Orchestration Plan and run it.
Suggestion: If you can’t wait and want to do it immediately, just read the previous articles 🙂
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