Working with orchestration plans for DR
When it comes to orchestrating failovers and recovery, there are four main plans that Orchestrator uses:
- Replica plans: These use replication jobs to conduct failovers.
- CDP replica plans: When you configure a CDP job in Veeam Backup & Replication, this can be used to create a failover plan.
- Restore plans: These work with backup jobs and allow you to conduct a restore to either the original location or an alternate location for VMs.
- Storage plans: These allow for storage snapshot orchestration and failover.
To create orchestration plans, the embedded Veeam ONE application creates VM groups from the collection and categorization of data. As you can see with the icons in the preceding Figure 10.25, there is Veeam ONE Client.
The VM groups created from Veeam ONE are categorized based on either vCenter Server tags (vSphere Tags) or custom Veeam ONE categories.
Now let's walk through setting up a CDP replica...