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Replication Over the WAN: An In-Depth Guide to Veeam Backup and Replication

For Disaster Recovery

Chris Henley Product Strategy Specialist Veeam™

@NerdyLikeThat

Replication Source

Hyper-V Host

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

How Veeam Replication Works Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM

VIB

.vrb .vrb

VIB

CBT

Replication Files

Full VM replica (a set of VM configuration files and

virtual disks);

Replica rollback files (.vrb);

Replica metadata (.vbk) used to store replica change

IDs.

Architecture

Backup Proxy

Target

Hyper-V Host

Source

Hyper-V Host

Veeam Agent

On Host Replication

Target

Hyper-V Host

Source

Hyper-V Host

Source-Side

Agent Target-Side

Agent

Off Host Replication

Target

Hyper-V Host

Source

Hyper-V Host

Source-Side

Agent

Target-Side

Agent

Backup Proxy

Replica Seeding

Target

Hyper-V Host Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Backup

LAN or WAN

VM

Backup

Backup

Repository

Backup

Repository

Replica Mapping

Target

Hyper-V Host Source

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM VM .vrb

VIB

Network Mapping

Source

Network

Target Network

Network

Mapping

Table

Re-IP

Source Site

Target DR Site

Re-IP Rules

Failover Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM

.vrb

Snapshot

Normal Failover

What Now?

Permanent Failover

Undo Failover

Failback

Permanent Failover

Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM

Snapshot

Failover

VM

Excluded

Undo Failover

Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM

Snapshot

Normal Failover

.vrb

VIB

Failback (Original Host)

Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM

Failover

Snapshot

Normal Failover

Failback

Snapshot

Failback

Undo Failback

Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM

Failover

Snapshot

Normal Failover

Failback

Snapshot

Failback

Commit Failback

Source

Hyper-V Host

VM

Target

Hyper-V Host

LAN or WAN

VM

Failover

Snapshot

Normal Failover

Failback

Snapshot

Failback Normal

.vrb

VIB

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