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
3-2-1 rule for Veeam configuration backup - VNOTE42
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,,,
- CDP Retention Policies...
  - Short-term retention: The minimum RPO is 2 seconds. The optimal RPO is not less than 15 seconds. The maximum RPO is 60 minutes.
  - Long-term retention.
- 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).
- Failover and Failback for CDP.
- Recipe: Perform a Failover to recover a VM replicated with CDP.
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).
- Failover via Replicas.
- Failover and Failback for Replication
Orchestration (VDRO) recommended, but optional
Typically focused on "Very Important" workloads.
Note: Potential risk of data loss.