Connect disaster recovery through Veeam Cloud Connect Replication
You can connect disaster recovery to the Selectel cloud from the On-Premises infrastructure.
To connect disaster recovery via Veeam Cloud Connect Replication, you must have Veeam Backup & Replication™ in version 9.5 Update 4b or higher or Veeam Availability Suite deployed.
- Create a virtual data center.
- Order disaster recovery connectivity through Veeam Cloud Connect Replication.
- Connect Veeam Backup & Replication to Veeam Cloud Connect in Selectel.
- Create a replication job.
1. Create a virtual data center
Use the instructions Create a virtual data center.
2. Order a disaster recovery connection
- In the Dashboard, on the top menu, click Products and select VMware-based Cloud.
- Go to the DRaaS section.
- Select the virtual data center for which you will configure disaster recovery.
- Specify the number of replicated virtual machines.
- Click Order.
- We will create a ticket and send you the connection details.
3. Connect Veeam Backup & Replication to Veeam Cloud Connect in Selectel
Use the Connect Veeam Cloud Connect instructions.
4. Create a replication task
Learn more about configuring replication jobs in the Creating Replication Jobs instructions in the Veeam documentation.
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In the Veeam Backup & Replication panel, go to the HOME section.
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Click Replication Job → Virtual machine.
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In the Job step:
3.1 In the Name field, enter a name for the job.
3.2 Optionally: in the Description field, add a description of the task.
3.3 Optional: If you already have this virtual machine in Veeam Cloud Connect and you want to enable traffic savings and replication acceleration, check the Replica seeding checkbox.
3.4 Optional: To enable network remapping and reduce RPO, check the Network remapping checkbox.
3.5 If the IP address in your cloud and Selectel's cloud are different, check the Replica re-IP checkbox.
3.6 Press Next.
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In the Virtual machines step:
4.1 Click Add.
4.2.Add the virtual machine for which you will connect disaster recovery.
4.3 Press Next.
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In the Destination step:
5.1 In the Host or cluster field, click Choose.
5.2 Select Cloud host.
5.3 Select Selectel's virtual data center.
5.4 Optionally: change the vApp and storage policy.
5.5 Press Next.
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If you checked the Network remapping checkbox in the Name step, in the Network step:
6.1 Click Add.
6.2 In the Source network field, click Browse.
6.3 Select the networks in your infrastructure that will be mapped to networks in the Selectel cloud.
6.4. Press OK → OK → Next.
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If you checked the Replica re-IP checkbox in the Name step, in the Re-IP step:
7.1 Set up the addressing rules.
7.2 Press Next.
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In the Job Settings step:
8.1. In the Replica name suffix field, specify the virtual machine replica name prefix.
8.2 In the Restore points to keep field, specify the number of copies.
8.3 Press Next.
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In the Data Transfer step:
9.1 Configure a proxy or leave the default proxy.
9.2 Press Next.
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If you checked the Replica seeding checkbox in the Name step, in the Seeding step, configure primary replication acceleration for existing virtual machines.
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In the Guest Processing step:
11.1 Optional: To create consistent replicas of running virtual machines and protect guest OS applications, check the Enable application-aware processing checkbox, see the Application-Aware Processing instructions in the Veeam documentation.
11.2 Press Next.
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In the Schedule step:
12.1 Optional: to configure replication to run automatically on schedule, check the Run the job automatically checkbox and configure the replication frequency.
12.2 Click Apply.
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In the Summary step:
13.1 Check the job settings.
13.2 Optionally, to start replication automatically after job creation, check the Run the job when I click Finish checkbox.
13.3. Click Finish. The job is displayed under HOME → Jobs → Replications.