VMware vSphere • Re: Veeam Quick Migration Use?

As you are on the Advanced version I would not use quick migration as Veeam Replication gives you way better control over the migration process.

In the end Quick Migration uses some sort of VM Replication but the failover happens whenever the data shuffling is ready.

I would do the following:
- Implement Veeam VM Replication during regular processing.
- Spread the initial replication across multiple days, so that you do not overload your storage. This is to avoid interuption in daily processing.
- Plan the Failover (there is a Failover Plan) where you can decide in what order the VMs will start at failover.
- Schedule the Failover with the Failover plan or manually start the failover. (it will replicate just the delta from the last replication run and then failover the VMs in the order you have planned.)
- If everything runs fine. Commit the Failovers.
- Create backup jobs for the new environment.


You need the following:
A Veeam Backup Server (with Veeam Backup & Replication installed).
I would install 2 Windows VMs on each of the system temporary as HotAdd proxies for data shuffling (on the new and old system).
Install Windows as VMs and add them in the Backup Infrastructure - Proxy section.

Statistics: Posted by Andreas Neufert — Jan 03, 2025 3:53 pm

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