Veeam Replication for Lotus Domino/SAP ERP

[aacable]

Scenario:
We have few esxi servers hosting multiple vm guests & all esxi servers are managed by Vcenter.
(esxi/vc ver 6.5). We are in a process of virtualizing our IBM Lotus Domino (ver 8.5.3 FP6) & SAP ERP (ver6) hosted on physical server having windows 2008 R2.

Can we create replication for the domino/sap for failover/failback ? Does Veeam support domino/sap replication? can some one share their experience in this regard?

[HannesK]

Hello,
just to clarify: are you really running Domino and SAP on one system?

In general, there is no support from Veeam for these systems. But that does not mean, that you cannot do it. The easiest way is to just stop the applications for replication / backup.

For domino: please have a look at this discussion post258181.html
For SAP: what database do you use? how do you backup that system today?

Best regards,
Hannes

[Andreas Neufert]

VM replication just replicate the data within a VM on image level. You can replicate all kind of workloads in general as the technology do not really care what is in the VM.

For Databases it makes sense to do some consistency processing before replication, so that a failover 100% works.
Depending on what database is used with your SAP instance, Veeam Guest processing or pre-post scripts can be used.

For Domino it is not that simple to achive and usually all customers just replicate the server without consistency.
Important point here for a failover is that you need to do this in coordination with your Domino admin to avoid issue. Domino track all changes in document ID changes and when you failover to an older restore point these changes are out of sync with all other domino database replicas on other Domino Servers or the Notes clients. For mail this is not an issue really but the domino admin need to check the other used applications running on domino. (You do not want your order processing system process the orders again which are replicated back from the client as they are missing on the server DB and trigger "new document" agents to trigger something). Usually Domino Server uses just Domino internal replication mechanics. This product was build for such scenarios in the times when no internet was available.