Connect disaster recovery through Cloud Availability

Last update: June 04 2025

You can connect disaster recovery to the Selectel cloud from another provider's VMware public cloud or from another provider's On-Premises infrastructure or private cloud.

To connect disaster recovery, you must have a VMware-based public cloud organization created in the Selectel Control Panel.

If emergency recovery is connected, perform an emergency switchover in the event of an emergency.

1. Connect disaster recovery.
2. Connect to Cloud Availability at Selectel.
3. Create a replication job.
4. Optional: create a disaster recovery plan.
5. Optional: test emergency switching.

1. Connect disaster recovery⁠

From a public cloud on another provider

1. From the public cloud provider for which you are setting up disaster recovery, request the data:

   • Local site name;
   • Service endpoint address.

2. Create a ticket to configure connectivity on the Selectel side. In the ticket, specify the data received from the provider.

3. Provide similar Selectel cloud data to your provider to configure connectivity on the public cloud side. Specify Service endpoint address as the Service endpoint address:

   • St. Petersburg - https://vcav-spb-1.vmw.selectel.ru
   • Moscow - https://vcav-msk-1.vmw.selectel.ru

From On-Premises or a private cloud

1. Check the VMware Cloud Director Availability™ and VMware vCenter Server® version compatibility in the VMware Version Compatibility Matrix.

2. Download the virtual machine template from the VMware website.

3. Select one of the entities as the container for the virtual machine:

   • data center;
   • a folder;
   • cluster;
   • or a resource pool.

4. Right-click on the container and select Deploy OVF Template.

5. Optional: On the local DNS server, create an A record for the virtual machine to be deployed.

6. Select a template file in .ova format.

7. Enter the name of the virtual machine.

8. Accept the license agreement.

9. Set the network parameters.

10. Enter a new password to access Cloud Availability and the address of the NTP server.

11. Synchronize time on a virtual machine with VMware vCenter Server®, Platform Services Controller™, and VMware ESXi™. Use a shared NTP server.

12. Open the Cloud Availability administration page at https://<vcda_ip_address>/ui/admin. Specify <vcda_ip_address> is the IP address that you specified when you deployed the virtual machine from the .ovf template.

13. Optional: change your password the first time you log in.

14. Go to Getting Started → Run initial setup wizard.

15. Enter the name of the local site.

16. In the Lookup Service section, enter the Lookup service address of your vCenter. If the installation is a split PSC installation, the Lookup service is located on the split PSC.

17. Enter the vCenter Administrator name and password (use local SSO credentials with vCenter Server).

18. Accept the certificate.

19. In the Cloud Details section, in the Public IP Endpoint field, enter the address of the Cloud Availability remote site:

    • St. Petersburg - https://vcav-spb-1.vmw.selectel.ru
    • Moscow - https://vcav-msk-1.vmw.selectel.ru

20. In the Organization Admin field, enter the name of the Cloud Director organization administrator in the format administrator-<s-xxxx>@<s-xxxx>, where <s-xxxx> is the name of the organization, can be viewed in the Cloud Director address bar or in the Control Panel under VMware-based Cloud in the list of organizations.

21. In the Organization Password field, enter the administrator's password.

22. Optional: To enable On-Premises site access from Cloud Director, enable the Allow access from cloud toggle switch.

23. Accept the certificate.

24. Optional: To configure placement settings for virtual machines migrated from the cloud to the local vCenter, enable the Configure local placement toggle switch.

25. Click Finish.

2. Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel⁠

Use the instructions Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel.

3. Create a replication task⁠

Use the Create replication job subsection.

4. Optional: create a disaster recovery plan⁠

Use the Recovery Plans instructions in the VMware documentation.

5. Optional: test the emergency switchover⁠

Use the Test Failover instructions in the VMware documentation.