DR Temperatures
"Hot DR" - "Warm DR" - "Cold/Cloud DR" - "Frozen"
What is your Data Protection Blueprint? - 5 minute read
Recover Quickly in a Ransomware Attack - 4 minute read
Designing for Disaster (VMware vSphere Disaster Recovery Guide) - By vMiss.net - 10 minute read
"If you haven’t already implanted a disaster recovery plan in your environment, or you have one you haven’t quite tested properly, now is the time to act."
"Start with Your Applications" - "Assess Your Current Infrastructure and Get Creative" - "Track RPOs and Test, Test, Test" - "Design for Disaster"
Restoring infrastructure from scratch with Veeam - By Hannes Kasparick - 3 minute read
"With five easy steps, it’s possible to restore with Veeam Backup & Replication after everything except the backup files are lost. If there’s no hardware available to restore to, then restoring to Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure or Google Compute Engine is also easy to do with Veeam Backup & Replication."
External Repositories - "Built-in feature unlocks cross-cloud recoveries, flexible recoveries back to an on-premises datacenter and the ability to backup-copy your cloud backups to anywhere." - By vmJoe
Data Center Categories - 3 minute read
Tiers 1 to 4
Intended for virtual Infrastructures (VMware) with two (or more) geographically separated locations/regions with high speed connectivity.
"Active-Active" or "Active-Passive" sites.
Compute AND storage in multiple locations/regions.
Distributed Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc... over multiple locations/regions.
Veeam core services (VBR, VDRO, etc...) at the secondary location/region.
Data Synchronization...
Synchronous/Near real-time replication between sites using CDP / Continuous Data Protection
A "two-site commit" with transaction integrity (zero to minimal data loss and multiple recovery points).
NOTE that CDP is VMware-to-VMware (NOT VMware on AWS or Azure). Yes, CDP requires privileged access to VMware.
Recovery via CDP,,,
Short-term retention: The minimum RPO is 2 seconds. The optimal RPO is not less than 15 seconds. The maximum RPO is 60 minutes.
V11: Delivering low RPOs for Tier One applications with Veeam CDP.
Video Walk-through by Joe Gremillion (17:01): Veeam CDP Demo
Connectivity: High speed / Low latency
NOTE: Network between infrastructure components required for CDP must be minimum 1 Gbps. Recommended to use 10 Gbps or faster and MTU 9000.
Options include "Failover", "Undo failover", "Perform Failback" (including "Commit Failback", "Undo Failback"), "Perform Permanent Failover" (Details).
Orchestration (VDRO) HIGHLY recommended
Typically focused on "Mission Critical" workloads.
Diagram A - Hot DR
Intended for virtual Infrastructures (VMware or Hyper-V) with two (or more) geographically separated locations/regions.
"Active-Active" or "Active-Passive" sites.
Compute AND storage in multiple locations/regions.
Distributed Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc... over multiple locations/regions.
Veeam core services (VBR, VDRO, etc...) at the secondary location/region.
Potential Veeam Cloud Connect (Find a Veeam Cloud Provider).
Data Synchronization...
Asynchronous replication using Replicas to secondary location(s) - Replication scenarios
Backup Copy Jobs to secondary location(s).
Recovery via Replicas or Backup Copy Jobs at secondary location(s).
Restore from Backup Copy Jobs - Instant Recovery
Video Walk-through by Joe Monahan (11:13): How to perform Replication Failover
Connectivity: Potentially a VPN connection.
Note: Veeam WAN Acceleration may be beneficial.
Options include "Failover", "Undo failover", "Perform Failback" (including "Commit Failback", "Undo Failback"), "Perform Permanent Failover" (Details).
Orchestration (VDRO) recommended, but optional
Typically focused on "Very Important" workloads.
Note: Potential risk of data loss.
Diagram B - Warm DR with Replicas
Diagram C - Warm DR with Backup Copy Jobs
Veeam Backups copied/moved to a public (or private) cloud provider.
Data Synchronization...
Veeam backups extended to Object Storage / SOBR Capacity Tier in a public cloud provider.
Recovery - Conversion to a public cloud provider (such as AWS, Azure, GCP)...
Disaster Recovery TO the Cloud - Michael Cade
"A constant conversation we are having is around the ability to send workloads to the cloud by using our Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure or AWS, taking care of the conversion process and configuration migration."
Restoring workloads to Amazon EC2 - Veeam Help Center
Video Walk-through (35:30): Veeam restore to an EC2 instance in AWS
Restoring workloads to Microsoft Azure - Veeam Help Center
Restoring workloads to GCE (Google Compute Engine) - Veeam Help Center
Video Walk-through by Andrew Zhelezko (5:34): How to restore a server as a Google Cloud VM instance
Disaster Recovery IN the Cloud - By vMiss.net
"Things can get a bit nebulous when it comes to the cloud, but disaster recovery in the cloud means you are recovering from disaster to the cloud as your recovery site. Whether you start on premises or you start within the cloud doesn’t really matter, although there are some different planning considerations for each".
How to perform DR of Veeam backups stored in cloud object storage - By Joseph Gremillion
Connectivity: (Most likely) Internet-based.
Limited, if any Orchestration
Typically focused on "Most Common" workloads.
Note: Potential risk of data and service loss.
Diagram D - Recovery TO the cloud -and- Recovery IN the cloud
Data Synchronization: Removable Media (such as tape)
Recovery: UNDETERMINED
No Orchestration available.
Inexpensive (typically)
Note: EXTREMLY HIGH risk of data and service loss.
