Create Failover Plan for Veeam Replica's

To launch the New Failover Plan wizard, do one of the following:

• Open the Home view. In the working area, select VMs that you want to add to a failover plan. On the ribbon, click Add to Failover Plan > New failover plan if you want to create a new failover plan, or Add to Failover Plan > <Plan Name> if you want to add VMs to an existing failover plan.
• Open the Home view. In the working area, select VMs that you want to add to a failover plan and right-click one of them. Select Add to failover plan > New failover plan if you want to create a new failover plan, or Add to failover plan > <Plan Name> if you want to add VMs to an existing failover plan.

At the General step of the wizard, specify a name and description for the failover plan.

If you want to execute custom scripts before or after the failover plan, select the Pre-failover script and Post-failover script check boxes and click Browse to choose executable files. 

For example, you may want stop some applications on production VMs before the failover plan starts or send an email to backup administrators after the failover plan finishes.

The scripts will be executed on the backup server. Veeam Backup & Replication supports the script files in the following formats: BAT, CMD, EXE and PS1.

At the Virtual Machines step of the wizard, select VMs that you want to add to the failover plan. You can add separate VMs and whole VM containers.

To add VMs and VM containers:

1. Click Add VM.
2. Select where to browse for VMs and VM containers:

• From infrastructure - browse the virtual environment and select VMs or VM containers. If you choose a VM container, Veeam Backup & Replication will expand it to a plain VM list.

• From replicas - browse existing replication jobs and select all VMs or specific VMs from replication jobs.

To quickly find the necessary VMs or VM containers, you can use the search fields.

At the Virtual Machines step of the wizard, click Up and Down to change the processing order. VMs at the top of the list have a higher priority and will be started first. If some VMs provide environment for other dependent VMs, make sure that they are started first.

Step 5. Set Time Delay

After you have set the order for VMs in the failover plan, you need to set a time delay for VMs. The delay time defines for how long Veeam Backup & Replication must wait before starting the failover operation for the next VM in the list. You can use time delays to make sure that some VMs are already running at the moment dependent VMs start.

For example, you have added 2 VMs to the failover plan and set a time delay to 60 seconds for the first VM in the list. Veeam Backup & Replication will perform failover in the following manner: Veeam Backup & Replication will start the failover operation for the first VM in the list, then wait for 60 seconds and start the failover operation for the second VM in the list.

 

To set the time delay for a VM:

1. Select it and click Set Delay on the right or double-click the VM in the list.
2. Enter the time interval that you consider sufficient for this VM to boot.

 

Step 6. Finish Working with Wizard

At the Summary step of the wizard, review details for the configured failover plan and click Finish to create the plan.

 

 

Should you have any other questions, please contact our Service Desk by emailing support@vgrid.nz or phoning 0800 425 383 during business hours.