Veeam Availability Orchestrator

Veeam Availability Orchestrator is a management tool process of postdisaster recovery for continuous work of business. A system integrates possibilities of Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup & Replication, promoting cost reduction and increasing reliability of scenarios of postdisaster recovery.

Possibilities of software

• management: coordination of work with backup copies and remarks of Veeam according to the set scenarios of postdisaster recovery;
• automatic testing of scenarios of postdisaster recovery:
  • automatic testing without prejudice to a working environment for the purpose of reliability augmentation and cost reduction on non-automated processes;

• documentation and compliance to regulations:
  • the built-in instruments of documentation, formation and updating of the reporting under scenarios of postdisaster recovery according to the existing requirements.

Licensing

Veeam Availability Orchestrator is held for use with Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup & Replication and is licensed on number of the virtual machines (VM). The compulsory provision - presence at the customer of the license Enterprise Plus for Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication.

2020: Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 и DR Pack

On June 18, 2020 the Veeam Software company provided products: Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3 (VAO) and DR Pack. Thanks to DR Pack of the enterprise can reduce the costs to 80% and at the same time will at once receive the target solution for planning and holding actions for disaster recovery for all workloads. Thus, the companies will be able to simplify and optimize works on disaster recovery and ensuring business continuity as now it is not required to make difficult decisions what of workloads will be left without protection in a short time.

Process automation, requiring the large volume of manual work, and the updated opportunities for business through disclosure of potential of usually not used data is a key to creation of more flexible business. VAO v3 provides intellectual orchestration and testing of the systems of ensuring business continuity, disaster recovery and data migration using technology of recovery which excludes the repeating, vremyazatratny, manual processes when planning actions for migration and disaster recovery. DR Pack provides the updated possibilities of orchestration and automation. For June, 2020 any data are of great importance, DR Pack allows the organizations to use simple and reliable planning of disaster recovery not only for the main workloads, but also to protect all workloads. Denny Allan, CTO and the senior vice president for the product strategy of Veeam company told

According to the company, in upgraded version the full support of orchestration of recovery for pictures of Netapp ONTAP appeared. Now users can provide the continuity of work of the IT services of different scale thanks to scalable orchestration of process of recovery, whether it be the backup copies or remarks created using the products Veeam or exact copies based on arrays. VAO v3 offers a set of the opportunities providing for the enterprises the necessary planning levels and performing procedures of disaster recovery including automatic testing, dynamic documentation and start of the plan of disaster recovery in only one click — both for one application, and for the whole platforms.

Among the updated VAO v3 opportunities also expanded orchestration of recovery from exact copies based on arrays for all clients of Netapp ONTAP. The updated functionality which received the name Storage Orchestration Plans ("Plans of orchestration of storage") gives to users the chance in case of failure to make recovery of Netapp ONTAP storage on the auxiliary platform, whether it be the platform of disaster recovery or other DPC at migration of DPC.

VAO provides following features for users of Veeam and NetApp ONTAP:

• Okolonulevy RTO and RPO value for all applications and data with a full support of orchestration of recovery for pictures of Netapp ONTAP and also for the backup copies and remarks created using Veeam
• An opportunity to refuse expensive manual procedures and to pass to complex orchestration into one click, process automation of disaster recovery and data migration.
• Constant control of recoverability of data and compliance to plans of disaster recovery using fully automatic system of testing and documentation, without breaks in work.

Besides, VAO v3 allows to implement necessary planning of disaster recovery on all workloads thanks to the product DR Pack which is suitable for the existing users of Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Availability Suite, proposing it the target solution on planning and implementation of disaster recovery. The product will become available within June, 2020.

2019: Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2

In May, 2019 it was announced a release of the new version of Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2 – systems with the improved opportunities of orchestration and automation and also with the wide set of applications and virtual machines. This solution helps the organizations to implement different scenarios of operational and disaster recovery of data and also their migrations. "The new version of Veeam Availability Orchestrator saves the organizations from the problems connected with recovery of virtual machines manually irrespective of whether they are protected using backup or replication" — the vice president of Veeam for product strategy Danny Allan told. He emphasized that it is powerful benefit in case it is necessary to provide compliance to internal standards of the company or to regulatory requirements, for example, with it as the general regulations on data protection (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) or Sarbeynza-Oxley's act (Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX). At the same time Danny Allan emphasized that Veeam does not specialize in solutions for data security: "We do software products which ensure safety of business of our customers".

2018: Release

The Veeam Software company, the supplier of the innovative solutions for ensuring continuous work of business (Availability for the Always-On Enterprise), announced on March 5, 2018 a release of the solution Veeam Availability Orchestrator which is a part of Veeam Availability Platform and allows the companies to provide business continuity and to perform postdisaster recovery (BC/DR).

Though many companies already have a DR plan, its accomplishment often is difficult, labor-consuming and long transaction. Non-automated processes, despite their prevalence, are unreliable, expensive and are not scaled therefore DR plans can become outdated with ease. It threatens availability of applications and data and also compliance to industry and legislative arrangements. Veeam Availability Orchestrator is the solution of this problem, giving opportunities of planning, automatic documentation and testing for readiness and compliance to regulations with a full support of remarks of Veeam.

Corporate clients need not only ensuring availability, but also the help in observance of the set regulations — Danny Allan, the vice president for strategic development of a product in Veeam told. — In case of accident of the company can lose millions because of idle time of a system. According to our annual research Veeam Availability Report, this digit makes about $21.8 million. The lack of the updated, tested and documented DR plan complicates quick response in case of failures. With the solution Veeam Availability Orchestrator of the company will be able to create the platform for ensuring availability, to reduce costs, to develop the scenarios of postdisaster recovery and to be sure of the capability to guarantee business continuity even at the worst succession of events.

The solution Veeam Availability Orchestrator created taking into account requirements to availability in a corporate segment allows to manage postdisaster recovery for the remarks VM created using Veeam Backup & Replication. It helps to perform creation, documentation, testing and accomplishment of DR plans which, in turn, are completely ready for the approval by the top management and key partners. All this will help the companies to reduce time, costs and efforts thanks to successful DR strategy which includes:

• Compliance to documentation regulations on the basis of templates that simplifies creation and updating of plans at change of virtual environment;
• Testing of a possibility of recovery due to conducting automatic checks according to the schedule and readiness checks on demand which have no impact on a working environment;
• Ensuring continuity of work of IT services through accomplishment of the multi-object spare DR plan after failure, including check of services and applications.

The solution Veeam Availability Orchestrator is available to users together with the license for Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise Plus now. For refining of the price contact local representative office of Veeam or resellers.

2016: Announcement

On April 7, 2016 the Veeam Software company provided Veeam Availability Orchestrator for use a corporate segment.

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Development of the thought-over and debugged scenarios of postdisaster recovery remains one of the main objectives facing heads of IT departments. In spite of the fact that many enterprises have ready scenarios, as a rule, they are too difficult and bulky — and it often means that scenarios are unreliable, difficult performed by, are irrelevant and insufficiently tested. Under the threat there is an availability of corporate data and applications and compliance to requirements of SLA (agreements on the level of provision of services). Our purpose – to help the companies of the corporate sector to provide the continuity of 24/7 business processes/365, and Veeam Availability Orchestrator – a new step on the way to this purpose. The solution will allow to meet the approved standards and requirements of SLA for data recovery and applications, to automate manual processes, to cut down expenses and to increase reliability. Ratmir Timashev, president and chief executive of Veeam Software company

Veeam Availability Orchestrator provides management of backup copies and remarks of Veeam according to the scenario of postdisaster recovery, testing without prejudice to a working environment, documentation automation, formation and updating of the reporting. Developers are sure - these opportunities will help corporate clients to guarantee data availability and applications, to support reliability, to reduce the costs connected with manual processes and to conform to the standards and regulations admitted to the organizations.

A system manages transactions Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup & Replication, supports different hypervisors and helps to simplify work with scenarios of postdisaster recovery.

The release of the solution is planned for 2016.