How to: Activate DRaaS
In case of a disaster, please follow the guidelines in this document
Partial disaster
A disaster classifies as a partial disaster, if the following things apply:
1. The Veeam Console/Veeam Backup & Replication is fully functional
2. The internal network and internet are functional
3. The NEA and hypervisor running the NEA is running.
If you have a disaster situation and still have your local network, you can enable failover on a VM through your own Veeam console.
Go to Replicas.
Click “Failover Now” in the upper left corner and then choose which VMs to fail over. Click “Next”.
Click “Finish”.
Failover now starts and your replicated VMs to your cloud hosts will now start.
Your failover is now active. If you need to fail back, browse to your active DR VMs and click “Failback to Production”. It will now stop the replication process, replicate changes back to production and shut down the replicated VM in DR on the cloud host.
Full disaster
A disaster classifies as a full disaster, if the following things apply:
1. The internal network is down
2. The Veeam Console is down/Client Veeam Backup & Replication cannot start
3. The NEA is unreachable/down.
In case of a full disaster, please go to: https://vac.revirt.global
Your login credentials are the same as provided for signing up to ReVirt! They are in the 2nd email that you received, when you signed up.
Once the disaster is over and everything is OK again, the Veeam Backup & Replication will automatically detect that a failover is in progress.
Please select “Failback to Production” to get all data synced from the DR site back to the production site.