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Welcome to Veeam Availability Orchestrator

Veeam® Availability Orchestrator (VAO) extends the functionality of Veeam® Availability Suite™ to orchestrate disaster recovery (DR) tasks, allowing DR failover and restore plan creation, documentation, testing and execution in VMware vSphere environments.

Welcome to Veeam Availability Orchestrator Note:

Veeam Availability Orchestrator is built on top of Veeam® Backup & Replication™ and Veeam® ONE™, and this guide assumes that you have a good understanding of these solutions.

Veeam Availability Orchestrator leverages backup, replication, failover and restore capabilities of Veeam Backup & Replication. It allows you to build DR workflows to automate failover and restore processes, eliminating error-prone manual steps. Veeam Availability Orchestrator also provides reporting capabilities that let enterprises document their DR plans to meet compliance requirements.

With Veeam Availability Orchestrator, you can do the following:

Meet disaster recovery compliance requirements — generate and automatically update documentation for DR procedures to eliminate the problem of outdated DR plans.
Automate DR procedures — create workflows that orchestrate failover and restore operations for Veeam Backup & Replication backups and replicas.
Prove recoverability — build test schedules to automate verification of failover and restore plans, with isolated and low-impact testing of VM backups, replicas and applications they run.