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title: "Recovery Plans"
description: "Orchestrator uses the failover and data recovery functionality provided by Veeam Backup & Replication to automate recovery actions."
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# Recovery Plans

Orchestrator uses the failover and data recovery functionality provided by Veeam Backup & Replication to automate recovery actions. In addition, Orchestrator provides vSphere VM recovery orchestration based on replicated storage snapshots created on NetApp and HPE storage systems. For these purposes, Orchestrator offers 5 types of recovery plans:

- [Replica plans](replica_plans_overview.md) — consist of vSphere VMs that should be failed over to replicas.
- [CDP replica plans](cdp_plans_overview.md) — consist of vSphere VMs that should be failed over to continuous data protection (CDP) replicas.
- [Restore plans](restore_plans_overview.md) — consist of vSphere VM, Hyper-V VM or Veeam agent backups that should be recovered to a VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
- [Storage plans](storage_plans_overview.md) — consist of VMs that store their files on vSphere datastores backed up by replicating NetApp and HPE storage systems.
- [Cloud plans](cloud_plans_overview.md) — consists of vSphere VM, Hyper-V VM or Veeam agent backups that should be recovered to a Microsoft Azure cloud environment.

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="vertical-align:middle; width:30%;">
      <p>Plan Type</p>
    </th>
    <th style="vertical-align:middle; width:35%;">
      <p>Workload Protection</p>
    </th>
    <th style="vertical-align:middle; width:35%;">
      <p>Target Environment</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>Replica</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>vSphere VM replicas</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;">
      <p>VMware vSphere</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>CDP Replica</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>vSphere VM CDP replicas</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;">
      <p>VMware vSphere</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>Restore</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>vSphere VM backups</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;">
      <p>VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>Veeam agent backups</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;">
      <p>VMware vSphere</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>Hyper-V VM backups</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;">
      <p>Microsoft Hyper-V</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>Storage</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>vSphere VMs </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;">
      <p>VMware vSphere</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p>Cloud</p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>vSphere VM backups</p>
    </td>
    <td rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top; width:75%;">
      <p>Microsoft Azure</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>Veeam agent backups<br/></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:224px;">
      <p>Hyper-V VM backups</p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>