Solution Architecture

This section provides information on the Orchestrator architecture and its components, and describes some common deployment scenarios. The main components in the Orchestrator architecture are:

Optionally, additional infrastructure required for recovery can be connected, for example:

Veeam Orchestrator Server

The Orchestrator server is the configuration, administration and management core of the Orchestrator architecture. This is where recovery plans are created, audited, tested and executed. Internally, the Orchestrator server is comprised of the following components:

All Orchestrator components can be deployed on a single Windows-based physical or virtual machine using the unified installer.

Important

Installation of the Orchestrator server on a machine already running Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam ONE is not supported.

Solution Architecture 

Veeam Backup & Replication Servers

Deploy an Orchestrator agent to each of your Veeam Backup & Replication servers to orchestrate the recovery of protected machines.

[Optional] vCenter Servers

All vCenter Servers that manage protected VMs, or that will host recovered backups, must be connected to the Orchestrator server.

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 7.1 allows you to recover VMs to vCenter Servers managed by VMware Cloud Director. For more information, see the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide, section Backup for VMware Cloud Director.

Note

You can recover only VMs protected by VMware Cloud Director backup jobs. Recovering VMs protected by VMware Cloud Director replication and CDP replication jobs is not supported.

[Optional] NetApp Storage Systems

All NetApp storage systems must be connected to the Orchestrator server. That is, you must connect source and target storage virtual machines (SVMs) that manage the source volumes hosting VM disks and configuration files, and SVMs that manage the replicated volumes.

Note

You can connect only SVMs to the Orchestrator server. Connections to NetApp clusters and nodes are not supported.

[Optional] HPE Storage Systems

All HPE storage systems must be connected to the Orchestrator server. That is, you must connect storage systems that manage volumes hosting VM disks and configuration files, and storage systems that manage volumes storing replicated data.

Note

You can connect only storage systems to the Orchestrator server. Connections to StoreServ Management Consoles are not supported.