Failover plan, how to connect VM with NEA

[Sross]

Hello everyone,

I'm testing failover plans to a CloudConnect hardware plan, and I am not seeing a way to connect a VM with the NEA after the failover plan has completed.

If I just manually initiate a failover (not using a plan) then the NEA engages and brings it online. For the failover plan, the remote one just sits there in a running state with no connectivity, or any direct way to connect it. I've tried googling and searching this forum and haven't found it. I am expecting that it will be an obvious solution that I am missing

[dellock6]

Hi Shad,
what do you mean to connect to NEA? Also, when you talk about the "remote one", you mean the nea at the provider or at the tenant? Because the latter is not started during a failover plan, only for a partial failover of a single vm, since it's supposed to connect back to the rest of the production site which is still up and running.
Or you were meaning something else?

[gavee]

Hi all;

I am on the same situation as @Sross, as a service provider (SP):

We have 1 NEA deployed on my side (SP) with one virtual network per each tenant networks, and at tenant side, they have one NEA per each network they have. Everything is theorethical right as per documentation.

We have tested scenarios with partial failover for individual VMs and works fine, but we are wondering how to failover more than one VM at the same time. When we try to failover a second replica, an error prompts telling that there are already a VPN connected, so we started to think that we needed to configure a "Failover Plan" to make several VMs failover at the same time, with no success. Because the behaviour is that when we start this "Failover Plan", NEA and VMs starts on SP' side but nothing happens on tenant' side, its NEA does not boot.

So, at this point, we have 2 questions here:
1. How is possible to achieve several VMs (let say more than 1) failover at the same time or one first, then another while the first one is at failover state?
2. Does to run "Failover Plan" only make sense when we want to run a Full Site Failover instead of partial failover?

I should assume that Veeam have thinked about a solution for this scenario but we are not able to find how to achieve it.

Thank you for your help.