A Failover Plan in Veeam is the main way to create a Recovery Group, which enables you to manage and execute failovers.
The Veeam Failover Plan allows you to include replications in one-click failover orchestration, so you can control boot order and delays necessary for your applications in the replicas. Veeam also gives you the added benefit of accessibility, allowing you to initiate the failover plan from your Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR) console or Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC). All edits must be made in Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR). However, it can be started from either Veeam Backup and Replication (VBR) console or Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC).
Before you can create a failover plan, you must successfully complete at least one replication. See our knowledge base article How to Create a Replication Job for more information.
Creating a Failover Plan
- Open and Connect to the Veeam Backup and Replication Console.
- On the Home tab, click on the Failover Plan tile > click on Cloud Connect (vCloud).
- Enter a Failover Plan Name and optionally enter a Description > click Next.
- On the Virtual Machines page, click Add VM.
- In the Select Replica window, either select a replication job to add all the VMs in the job or expand the replication job to select individual VMs. Once everything needed in the Failover Plan is selected, click Add.
- The order of the VMs in the Failover Plan is the order they will boot in. Click on the Up or Down buttons to change the order. Optionally, click on Set Delay to change the boot delay for the VM.
- To configure the boot delay from the previous VM, select the VM to change and click Set Delay… A pop-up window for Boot Delay will appear. In the Set boot delay to: field, enter the number of seconds to wait from the previous VM and click OK.
- Once the order and boot delay is configured for each VM, click Next > click Finish.
- Now in the left navigation, expand Replicas, click on Failover Plans. You will see the newly created failover plan.
