Windows Agent

[davis_b]

I am trying to create plans I will need to include window agent backups but for some reason VAO is unable to find any restore points. Has anyone else ran into this and know if there is something specific that would need to be done?

[Mildur]

Hi Davis

As far I know, VAO only supports VmWare VMs and no Veeam Agent for Windows Backups.

[davis_b]

Before we purchased I specifically asked if Agents are covered as well and I told yes. I am nearly certain I was able to include an agents when I built a POC a few months ago but of course I don't have that POC environment anymore to check. But I could be wrong as I have been wrong before

[Alec King]

In current version of Orchestrator you would need to use scripting to recover agents. Custom scripts can be added that leverage Veeam Backup PowerShell. You could add these steps as Pre- or Post- plan steps (before or after VDRO recovers the VMs in the plan)

[jessey316]

Hi there,

I am also lookng at using VAO for DR in Azure and wanted to know if agent backups are still unsupported? If so, what alternatives are some customers using when backing up via veeam agent for windows.

[jessey316]

Hi,

I am curious about what others using windows agent are doing for DR and backup testing. For our setup, we have an on prem VBR server backing up our Windows servers (using Veeam agent) then the backups are copied to Azure blog storage and a local copy. We are now looking at DR using Azure and I saw there is the Veeam Recovery Orchestrator but I don't believe this supports agent backups? if so, are there any other recommendations

[Mildur]

Hi Jessey

Our new release of VRO (v6) allows you to recover Agent backups to Azure or vSphere.
https://www.veeam.com/veeam_orchestrato ... new_wn.pdf

Quickly recover Veeam Agent backups as VMs in both Azure
and vSphere. Any workload protected by Veeam Agent
for Windows or Linux can be recovered into the virtual
environment as a VM. Automatically map physical networks
to virtual networks during recovery, map physical resources
such as CPU and memory to virtual machine types, and
orchestrate the scalable recovery of multiple systems while
reducing human error

You can find a schema in our user guide:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vdro/ ... tml?ver=60

Best,
Fabian

[jessey316]

Ah, great, that's really good to know. I will have a look into this. thanks Mildur

[jessey316]

@Mildur I was doing some further research and I wanted to check that it would be possible to setup the VRO without VCentre? in the configuration steps I see VCentre in the infrastructure setup

[Alec King]

Hi @jessey316 , if you only want to recover Veeam Agent backups direct to Microsoft Azure, then you do not need to connect VMware vCentre to VRO at all.

[jessey316]

Hi Alec, i seem to be seeing conflicting information. I raised a ticket with veeam support to find out more and I was told "Veeam Agent for Windows backups are not supported by Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator"

[Mildur]

Hi Jessey

Can you please share the case number, so we can check the ticket for this statement?
This functionality is available in the newest release.

Best,
Fabian

[jessey316]

Hi Fabian,

Thank you, the details are case # 06040690

[Mildur]

Thank you.
I'm discussing the case with our support team.

I see in the case notes, that you were provided with an old FAQ for v5. It looks like this FAQ is not directly available anymore on our main page. It's just still there. I will make sure that we remove or update that FAQ.

This is our new main product page, and it mentions Agent recovery as a feature:
https://www.veeam.com/disaster-recovery ... rator.html


Best,
Fabian

[jessey316]

Hi Fabian,

This is great. Thank you for providing the link and clarifying