Say hello to Veeam Availability Orchestrator

Muhammad Adel July 17, 20203,943

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Well… Personally I was waiting for this one from Veeam. Since my first experience with Veeam when I used “Veeam Backup and Replication”. The backup is fantastic. But where is the replication?!

I like working with several BCDR solutions, and I had several years of experience with RP, SRM, vSphere Replication, RP4VM. With lots of pros and cons. I was looking for something COMPLETE. Let’s hope Veeam nails it.

Now, let’s take a look on VOA V3:

1-click site recovery and DR testing

With this “moto”, Veeam introduced the latest version of VOA solution. And it is actually describes what you can do with only ‘single click’.

With today’s complexity of DC and application, you need it simple to manage and automate your BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) plans. VOA comes to eliminate the manual, time-consuming and repeatable processes that hinder necessary DR by automatically testing, documenting, and executing DR plans in as little as one-click from a single application to entire sites as below:

Maximize service availability

Deliver uptime and resiliency with lightning-fast, one-click disaster recovery, avoidance and migrations.

Flexible recovery options

Choose the protection method that fits your SLOs; recover from backups or replicas — Veeam-powered or array-based.

Eliminate manual processes

Orchestrate and automate recovery, testing and documentation to skyrocket operational efficiencies.

Guarantee successful recovery

Predict and confirm outcomes with fully automated DR testing that doesn’t disrupt production or users.

Protect yourself from audits

Maintain up-to-date documentation to assure stakeholders and compliance requirements.

Make your data work for you

Risk-free Dev/Test, patching and more that puts your protection data and infrastructure to work.

So, what do you ever need to perform successful disaster recovery?

Everything below is already here:

Dramatically improve availability and resilience through reliable, perfectly-sequenced orchestration of failover, failback, restores and migration for single, tens or hundreds of applications.

Verify the functionality of any mission-critical virtual machines (VMs) and applications, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, IIS and more, with both out-of-the-box and custom scripting, steps and parameters.

Empower business units, application owners and operations teams with delegated role-based access to orchestration planning, testing and resources.

Execute plans anywhere with an intuitive, web-based console accessible from wherever an internet connection is present — desktop, laptop, and tablet.

Demonstrate the viability of orchestration plans at any time with rigorous testing options that have zero impact on the production systems that run the business

.Confidently release proven-to-work updates, patches and new software through reliable application development and testing against production-fresh data in a secure, isolated environment.

Minimize the financial and organizational impact of frequent testing through the power of automation with both scheduled and on-demand options.

Verify that orchestration plans match the environment’s current configuration and are ready-to-run with plan readiness checks that complete in a few moments.

Know exactly what to do in the event of disaster with a DR plan that documents key stakeholders and precise processes necessary for a timely and successful recovery.

Demonstrate at a moment’s notice the health and compliance of past and present plans, tests and recoveries to executives, auditors and regulatory bodies like SOX, GDPR and HIPAA.

Be certain that the latest plan edits and environmental changes are audited with built-in change tracking for all orchestration plans, including who and what has changed.

Prove SLA attainment with documented recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) outcomes and proactively remediate errors with actionable, easy-to-use reports and analytics that are automatically generated after every test, failover, and recovery.