Today I will share a customer success story of Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator. This customer is looking for a disaster recovery solution to protect production virtual machines. VMware SRM and Veeam are common Disaster Recovery solution in my region.
Existing Environment
- Platform: VMware vSphere 6.7 and vCenter 6.7
- Storage Array: NetApp ONTAP Storage
- Backup Solution: Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5
Requirements
- Automatic data recovery and failover
- No impact on production environment during data recovery and failover
- Data recovery in an isolated network environment for internal testing
- Application-aware processing
- Test DR plans with zero impact to the production environment
After the discussion with their system team, I listed out the comparison table of VMware SRM and Veeam (refer to below table) for reference. Finally the customer chose Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (VDRO) for DR solution because VMware SRM does not fulfill some requirements.
Proposed DR Solution
Summary
The customer chose the VDRO because of the following features are better than VMware SRM
- Automatic data recovery and failover
- Automatically verify the recovery of each VM, service and application before failover operation
- Data recovery in an isolated network environment for internal testing
- Application-aware processing
- The minimum PRO is 2 seconds
- The CDP feature can be enabled after upgraded the VBR to v11
- The customer can choose the different DR approach (Veeam Replication, CDP and VDRO) depended on the different SLA
Victor Wu
Chief Architect, Blogger, Author at Dell EMC Knowledge Sharing & Packt
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