I had some trouble finding the right commands for Replica Failover, Failback and Failback commit, so I created the following examples.
The code is written for v7
They do:
Failover the VM and add it to the exclude list (v8 do this automatically).
Failback to original VM
Failback commit and add the VM back from Exclude list of the job.
Attention at failback commit you need to select the right restore point, otherwise you will end up with the VM placed in the "LockedIteam" Table of Veeam and you can not process the VM anymore.
The correct restore point for Failback is the first one (index 0) while for failback commit it is the second one (index 1) because at failback there is an new snapshot/restorepoint.
If you start Failback and Failback commit at same time, you can read out the restore point a single time before processing the command with index 0.
If you ended up with VM in the LockIteams table (you can not process the VM anymore at a B&R Job). You can use the following Script to delete the lock table with SQL Management Studio.
Please change DB Name accordingly.
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USE VeeamBackup
delete from [Backup.TrackedActions.Leases]
delete from [Backup.TrackedActions.LockItems]
delete from [Backup.TrackedActions.Locks]Failover Code:
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#On the BRE/SQL Server
#enable-wsmancredssp -role server
#set-item wsman:localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 512
#On the Client
#winrm quickconfig
#enable-wsmancredssp -role client -delegatecomputer backup, backup.demoinfra.an.veeam.de
#set-item wsman:localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 512
#
#gpedit.msc
#Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Credentials Delegation -> Allow Fresh Credentials with NTLM-only Server Authentication
#Enable and add SPN and FQDN of the Servers in the list,like this:
#WSMAN/Servername (without #)
#WSMAN/servername.domain.tld (without #)
#
#PS with Administrative rights "gpupdate /force"
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Loading Input"
#Define an Backup Server + Credentials and connect to Server
$backupserver = "backup"
$username = "backup\demolab"
$password = convertto-securestring -string "Sumsi1!" -asplaintext -force
$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $Username, $Password
$session = New-PSSession $backupserver -authentication CredSSP -Credential $credentials
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Connectiong to Backup Server" $backupserver "and processing commands..."
#Process commands directly at the Server.
invoke-command -session $session -scriptblock{
#Define Jobname and VM for failover
$Jobname = "testrep"
$VMName = "empty"
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Connected to Backup Server (Timestamps are now on loacl time of backup server)"
#Load Veeam Powershell Plugin
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Loading Veeam Powershell Snapin"
Add-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Exclude VM from Job so that Job can run without error for the other VMs. v8 do this automatically, you can skipt this then.
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Exclude VM " $VMName " from Job."
$JobObject = Get-VBRJob -name $JobName
$ObjectToRemove = $JobObject | Get-VBRJobObject -name $VMName
$ObjectToRemove | Remove-VBRJobObject
#Process Failover
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Failover for VM " $VMName " in progress."
$RestorePoint = Get-VBRReplica -name $Jobname | Get-VBRRestorePoint | ? {$_.VmName -eq $VMName} | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select -Index 0
Start-VBRViReplicaFailover -RestorePoint $RestorePoint -Confirm:$False
#Close Session
}
Remove-PSSession $session
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Failover Job finished"Code: Select all
#On the BRE/SQL Server
#enable-wsmancredssp -role server
#set-item wsman:localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 512
#On the Client
#winrm quickconfig
#enable-wsmancredssp -role client -delegatecomputer backup, backup.demoinfra.an.veeam.de
#set-item wsman:localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 512
#
#gpedit.msc
#Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Credentials Delegation -> Allow Fresh Credentials with NTLM-only Server Authentication
#Enable and add SPN and FQDN of the Servers in the list,like this:
#WSMAN/Servername (without #)
#WSMAN/servername.domain.tld (without #)
#
#PS with Administrative rights "gpupdate /force"
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Loading Input"
#Define an Backup Server + Credentials and connect to Server
$backupserver = "backup"
$username = "backup\demolab"
$password = convertto-securestring -string "Sumsi1!" -asplaintext -force
$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $Username, $Password
$session = New-PSSession $backupserver -authentication CredSSP -Credential $credentials
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Connectiong to Backup Server" $backupserver "and processing commands..."
#Process commands directly at the Server.
invoke-command -session $session -scriptblock{
#Define Jobname and VM for failback
$Jobname = "testrep"
$VMName = "empty"
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Connected to Backup Server (Timestamps are now on loacl time of backup server)"
#Load Veeam Powershell Plugin
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Loading Veeam Powershell Snapin"
Add-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Start Failback
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Failback to original VM for VM " $VMName " in progress."
$RestorePoint = Get-VBRReplica -name $Jobname | Get-VBRRestorePoint | ? {$_.VmName -eq $VMName} | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select -Index 0
Start-VBRViReplicaFailback -RestorePoint $RestorePoint -PowerOn
#Close Session
}
Remove-PSSession $session
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Failback Job finished"Code: Select all
#On the BRE/SQL Server
#enable-wsmancredssp -role server
#set-item wsman:localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 512
#On the Client
#winrm quickconfig
#enable-wsmancredssp -role client -delegatecomputer backup, backup.demoinfra.an.veeam.de
#set-item wsman:localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 512
#
#gpedit.msc
#Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Credentials Delegation -> Allow Fresh Credentials with NTLM-only Server Authentication
#Enable and add SPN and FQDN of the Servers in the list,like this:
#WSMAN/Servername (without #)
#WSMAN/servername.domain.tld (without #)
#
#PS with Administrative rights "gpupdate /force"
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
write-host " "
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Loading Input"
#Define an Backup Server + Credentials and connect to Server
$backupserver = "backup"
$username = "backup\demolab"
$password = convertto-securestring -string "Sumsi1!" -asplaintext -force
$credentials = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $Username, $Password
$session = New-PSSession $backupserver -authentication CredSSP -Credential $credentials
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Connectiong to Backup Server" $backupserver "and processing commands..."
#Process commands directly at the Server.
invoke-command -session $session -scriptblock{
#Define Jobname and VM for failback commit
$Jobname = "testrep"
$VMName = "empty"
$VCenter = "esxi55u1"
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Connected to Backup Server (Timestamps are now on loacl time of backup server)"
#Load Veeam Powershell Plugin
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Loading Veeam Powershell Snapin"
Add-PSSnapin -Name VeeamPSSnapIn -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
# Delete VM from Exclude list and add the VM again
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Delete VM " $VMName " from exclude list"
$JobObject = Get-VBRJob -name $Jobname
$ObjectToDeleteFromExlude = $JobObject.GetObjectsInJob() | ?{$_.Name -eq $VMName -and $_.Type -eq "Exclude"}
$ObjectToDeleteFromExlude.Delete() | Out-Null #This removes also the VM Object
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Add VM " $VMName " to job again"
$VCenterObject = Get-VBRServer | where {$_.Name -eq $VCenter}
$VMtoAddAgainObject = Find-VBRViEntity -Server $VCenterObject -Name $VMName
Add-VBRViJobObject -Job $JobObject -Entities $VMtoAddAgainObject
#Process Failover commit
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Failback commit to original VM for VM " $VMName " in progress."
$RestorePoint = Get-VBRReplica -name $Jobname | Get-VBRRestorePoint | ? {$_.VmName -eq $VMName} | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select -Index 1 #ATTENTION at Failover there was a snapshot added to the VM, so the restorepoint needed for Failback commit is not Index 0, it is 1 higher.
Start-VBRViReplicaFailback -RestorePoint $RestorePoint -Complete: $True
#Close Session
}
Remove-PSSession $session
$actualtime = get-date
$actualtimeformated =$actualtime.ToUniversalTime()
Write-host $actualtime "Information: Jailback Commit Job finished"