Disaster recovery orchestration for the Enterprise (formerly Veeam Availability Orchestrator)
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Active-Active site deployment

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If I have active-active sites with replications going in both directions. Would it be supported to deploy Veeam DRO in both sites or do I need to choose one site for the DRO server?

Assuming we can only deploy it in a single site would we deploy it in the same site as the Veeam Backup server?

And what then needs to be restored to the second site to run orchestration plans? I assume we would need the Veeam Backup Server, Veeam DRO server and all of the related SQL databases?
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Re: Active-Active site deployment

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Would it be supported to deploy Veeam DRO in both sites or do I need to choose one site for the DRO server?
One VBR can only be connected to one vDRO. As I understand, you use only one VBR server to do the backups and replicas?
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Yes, there will be 1 VBR server managing the backup infrastructure in both sites. Should the site with the VBR server fail then either a replica of the VBR server ot a standby VBR server would be brought online with the configuration backup of the primary one.

Would it be better to have a VBR serer in each site? If so would we need to have dedicated proxy servers for each VBR server in both sites?
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Re: Active-Active site deployment

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Hello Graham,
Please bear in mind that VDRO does include its own VBR, so you could totally use this specific VBR for the Replicas, CDP, meaning your Tier-1 more critical workloads. While leveraging your normal VBR for your backups, and backup copies.

That could be a good option. Another one would be to have VBR do a File Copy of the Backup config, plus for example having the Production VBR do a replica of the VDRO VM, and having the VDRO VBR doing a replica of the production VBR, assuming they are virtualized.

These are just some suggestions I saw in the field.
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Re: Active-Active site deployment

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Thanks Jorge,

That's what I thought would be the options.

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