We've been doing some testing with VM replica failovers. So far, I've only tested the "planned failover" option, so I'm not sure if it's specific to this type of failover. I've noticed that after the failover is completed, Veeam will automatically power on the replica VM, even if the production VM was powered off. Then, if the VM fails to power on, for whatever reason, Veeam marks the session as failed and then turns the production VM back on.
Is there any way to change this behavior? The power on failure has been transient in some cases, or something we need to manually change on the replica VM before powering it on (due to differences in our production and DR environments). Ideally, I'd like the option to disable both powering on the replica VM during a failover (so we can decide to do it within VCenter and SCVMM afterwards), and also to prevent Veeam from turning on the source VM if a failover job fails. I get for convenience it makes sense in most cases to do this automatically, but it's causing us issues with our testing when Veeam does it when we don't want it to.
Is there any way to change this behavior? The power on failure has been transient in some cases, or something we need to manually change on the replica VM before powering it on (due to differences in our production and DR environments). Ideally, I'd like the option to disable both powering on the replica VM during a failover (so we can decide to do it within VCenter and SCVMM afterwards), and also to prevent Veeam from turning on the source VM if a failover job fails. I get for convenience it makes sense in most cases to do this automatically, but it's causing us issues with our testing when Veeam does it when we don't want it to.
Statistics: Posted by nmdange — Apr 23, 2025 7:24 pm
