How to be Successful with VAO

I guess I should have called this how to be successful with BCDR but I really wanted to tie this to VAO. I have heard of people saying VAO just works. It doesn’t quite mind you. It is a BCDR tool so it is only - at best - 15% of a BCDR project. The … Continue reading How to be Successful with VAO →

Recovery Plan – Exchange

When I am doing BCDR work, I like to build a recovery plan. This is info for a specific app that I get from an Application Catalog, or a Business Impact Assessment (BIA) and it is the specific details I need to do my actual BCDR tool recovery plan - such as Veeam Availability Orchestrator … Continue reading Recovery Plan – Exchange →

Multi VLAN in a Veam Virtual Lab when using VAO

Hello, I have been playing with this in the lab for a bit. A customer had an issue and confusion doing this in VAO so that means I need to figure it out and write it up. So here we are. Situation We have virtual machines on two different VLANs that need to be able … Continue reading Multi VLAN in a Veam Virtual Lab when using VAO →

Virtual Lab “xray” not found on server “xyz.mine.ca”

This has been bothering me for a bit. When I do a test failover I see the error above. Here is a screenshot: This is an example out of my lab. I could start and stop the virtual lab in the VAO UI with no issues. I removed / uninstalled everything and tried again. Still … Continue reading Virtual Lab “xray” not found on server “xyz.mine.ca” →

Virtual Lab: VM has no network adapter error

Hello all, We were working in Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) recently and I had an interesting error and a few of us were puzzled by it. So that means it is a good one to share. During a test failover we saw some unusual errors and the test failover failed. The two screenshots above are … Continue reading Virtual Lab: VM has no network adapter error →

Network remapping with Veeam Backup & Replication

Hi there, I had some issues recently where a better understanding of network remapping when replicating with Veeam would have been good. Especially since it can impact your virtual lab work as well as a failover when using Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO). After all, you would not want your VMs to fail-over when they are … Continue reading Network remapping with Veeam Backup & Replication →

Clean Up of VAO uninstall

Hi there, Several people asked me about this recently so I thought I better share my info. When you uninstall VAO, there is still some things left - like the SQL database. So here is my info on doing an uninstall so that it is possible to install VAO again on the VM. If you … Continue reading Clean Up of VAO uninstall →