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Connect disaster recovery via Veeam Cloud Connect Replication

You can connect disaster recovery to the Selectel cloud from your On-Premises infrastructure.

To connect disaster recovery via Veeam Cloud Connect Replication, you must have Veeam Backup & Replication™ version 12.3.2.3617 or higher, or Veeam Availability Suite, deployed.

  1. Create a virtual data center.
  2. Order disaster recovery connection via Veeam Cloud Connect Replication.
  3. Connect Veeam Backup & Replication to Veeam Cloud Connect in Selectel.
  4. Create a replication job.

1. Create a virtual data center

Use the Create a virtual data center instructions.

2. Order a disaster recovery connection

  1. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Cloud powered by VMware.
  2. Go to DRaaS.
  3. Select the virtual data center for which you will configure disaster recovery.
  4. Specify the number of virtual machines to replicate.
  5. Click Order.
  6. 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 job

Learn more about configuring replication jobs in the Creating Replication Jobs guide in Veeam documentation.

  1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, go to HOME.

  2. Click Replication Job → Virtual machine.

  3. At the Job step:

    3.1. In the Name field, enter the job name.

    3.2. Optional: in the Description field, add a job description.

    3.3. Optional: if this virtual machine is already in the Veeam Cloud Connect cloud and you want to enable traffic reduction and replication acceleration, select the Replica seeding checkbox.

    3.4. Optional: to enable network remapping and reduce the RPO, select the Network remapping checkbox.

    3.5. If the IP addressing in your cloud and the Selectel cloud differs, select the Replica re-IP checkbox.

    3.6. Click Next.

  4. At the Virtual machines step:

    4.1. Click Add.

    4.2. Add the virtual machine for which you will connect disaster recovery.

    4.3. Click Next.

  5. At the Destination step:

    5.1. In the Host or cluster field, click Choose.

    5.2. Select Cloud host.

    5.3. Select the Selectel provider's virtual data center

    5.4. Optional: change the vApp and storage policy

    5.5. Click Next.

  6. If at the Name step you selected the Network remapping checkbox, at 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. Click OK → OK → Next.

  7. If at the Name step you selected the Replica re-IP checkbox, at the Re-IP step:

    7.1. Configure the addressing rules

    7.2. Click Next.

  8. At 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. Click Next.

  9. At the Data Transfer step:

    9.1. Configure the proxy or leave the default proxy

    9.2. Click Next.

  10. If at the Name step you selected the Replica seeding checkbox, at the Seeding step, configure initial replication acceleration for existing virtual machines.

  11. At the Guest Processing step:

    11.1. Optional: to create consistent replicas of running virtual machines and protect guest OS applications, select the Enable application-aware processing checkbox; learn more in the Application-Aware Processing guide in Veeam documentation.

    11.2. Click Next.

  12. At the Schedule step:

    12.1. Optional: to configure automatic start of replication on schedule, select the Run the job automatically checkbox and set up the replication frequency.

    12.2. Click Apply.

  13. At the Summary step:

    13.1. Check the job settings

    13.2. Optional: for replication to start automatically after creating the job, select the Run the job when I click Finish checkbox.

    13.3. Click Finish. The job will appear in HOME → Jobs → Replications.