An administrator needs to create a strategy in advance of a disaster to ensure that applications can be started in a specific order. How can this be…

A Failover Plan is the specific feature within Veeam Backup & Replication designed for disaster recovery orchestration. It allows an administrator to pre-configure the sequence in which virtual machine replicas are started. This is critical for multi-tiered applications where dependencies exist, such as ensuring a database server is running before the application server that relies on it. The plan can include specific time delays between starting each VM and can be executed with a single click during a disaster, automating and simplifying the recovery process.

A. Attaching an XML file is not a native Veeam feature for orchestrating VM start order within a disaster recovery plan.

B. An Application Group is primarily used for recoverability testing with SureBackup and SureReplica jobs, not for orchestrating a live disaster recovery event.

D. Veeam ONE is a tool for monitoring, reporting, and capacity planning; it does not have capabilities to create or execute disaster recovery migration scripts.

1. Veeam Backup & Replication V12 User Guide for VMware vSphere:

Section: Failover Plans

Content: "A failover plan is a list of recovery instructions that automates the disaster recovery process for a group of critical VMs... For each VM in the list

you can specify a time delay. Veeam Backup & Replication will wait for the specified period of time before starting the next VM in the list." This directly confirms that Failover Plans are used to define a specific start order.

2. Veeam Backup & Replication V12 User Guide for VMware vSphere:

Section: Application Groups

Content: "An application group is a set of VMs that you want to test together... Veeam Backup & Replication will start VMs from the application group in the virtual lab one by one

in the order in which they are added to the group." This clarifies that Application Groups are for testing in an isolated lab

not for live failover orchestration.