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Recipe: Creating Failover Plans

Expected deliverables:

A failover plan, that allows to perform VM failover in precise order, with proper delay between VMs the power on, automatically.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• One or more replica VMs successfully replicated at least once.
• VM replicas must be in the Ready state.

Before you start:

The maximum number of VMs that can be started simultaneously when you run a failover plan is 10. If you want to execute custom scripts, you must create them before you configure the failover plan.

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
2. On the Home view, on the ribbon, click Failover Plan > VMware vSphere.
3. At the General step:
   • Specify a job name and description.
   • 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 a supported file among BAT, CMD, EXE and PS1.
   • Click Next.
4. At the Virtual Machines step, select VMs that you want to add to the failover plan.
   • Click Add, choose From infrastructure or From replicas to browse the virtual environment or the existing replication jobs. You can also use the search fields.
   • Using the Up and Down options you can set the VM Failover order.
   • Using the Set Delay option you can set the time delay for a VM. The delay time defines for how long Veeam ust wait before starting the failover operation for the next VM in the list.
   • Click Apply when finished.
5. At the Summary step, review details for the configured failover plan and click Finish to create the plan.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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