Comments on: Testing Veeam Backup & Replication Replica Testing Procedure

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:48:03 +0000

Hi Alberto,

Yes, Veeam can work across different VMware infrastructures without any problems as its doing a host replication and not related to which datacenter or cluster the host you are replicating to is located.

I hope this help.

Regards,
Eiad

By: Alberto

Alberto — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:40:23 +0000

Hi,
i have a questions for you:
Veeam can it works with saperated VMWare infrastructure. In my case, i have a SITE A where there is the primary infrastructure, and SITE B with the DR infrastructure. These two infrastrucuture are not in the same VMWare farm. Is it possible to implement a VM replication in this scenario?
thanks a lot

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:53:39 +0000

Can anyone tell me with Replication- is there any way to maintain the MAC address of the _replica system?

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:10:08 +0000

Hi,

Great information here, love the veeam product although i’m a bit confused around the failover option you discuss, in the veeam manual it states to power off the original vm prior to doing a failover and actually points to this site to test the process if you want to.. so in warrens comment above how are you doing a failover daily and keeping the source vm’s and working user base unaffected?

Re the revert option i think its important to explain that deleting a snapshot is NOT reverting, this is in fact taking your CURRENT changes and discarding the snapshot.. so when you replicate you will have a newer VM at the DR end..so make sure you 1. REVERT and 2. Delete the snapshot.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:00:21 +0000

I know this is an old post, but is there a way to disable the job via powershell?

Thanks,
RW

By: Eiad

Eiad — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:59:05 +0000

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your valuable feedback, though what I meant in the pictures is that to use the snapshot manager and hit the goto button after choosing the snapshot that you initially took.

The only reason I did it this way, as you can do both the reverting and the deletion from the same screen. Though I will leave your comment here so others can benefit of it.

Regards,
Eiad

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:44:34 +0000

Hi Eiad,

Thanks for the great step by step! As a newbie that followed this I missed the revert to current version the first time through. You may want to change the screenshot just below item number 6 that shows snapshot manager highlighted rather than revert to current snapshot. Other folks like myself may think deleting the snapshot will revert the disks instead of merging them like it does. Of course then after the next replication the disks are corrupt! Thanks again for your help!
Scott

By: admin

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:27:06 +0000

Hi William,

To great isolated network, you can create a virtual switch without any uplinks where all the VMs in this isolated network connect to this vSwitch.

I hope this help,
Eiad

By: William

William — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:35:26 +0000

Hi Eiad,

Thank you so much, it’s a grat article. Now I also understand why I had bleu screen.
Could you please explain me (sorry I’m novice with Vmware and Veeam) how to create an isolated test network.
I have Vcenter server 4.1 with 3 hosts (ESXI 4.1 advance edition).

Thank you so much,
William

By: admin

admin — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:37:01 +0000

HI Debbie,

I have always used the steps I have documented in here which has worked for me 100% of the time at my customers. Though please note I have not tried the latest version of Veeam, where the failback functionality might have been improved. You might want to test the normal failback functionality in Veeam, if that did not do it after you re-initiate the replication and fail-over again. Then start all over again & always follow the instruction I have documented.

Good Luck,
Eiad