Connect disaster recovery through Cloud Availability
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.
- Connect disaster recovery.
- Connect to Cloud Availability at Selectel.
- Create a replication job.
- Optional: create a disaster recovery plan.
- Optional: test emergency switching.
1. Connect disaster recovery
From a public cloud on another provider
From On-Premises or a private cloud
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From the public cloud provider for which you are setting up disaster recovery, request the data:
- Local site name;
- Service endpoint address.
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Create a ticket to configure connectivity on the Selectel side. In the ticket, specify the data received from the provider.
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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
- St. Petersburg
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Check the VMware Cloud Director Availability™ and VMware vCenter Server® version compatibility in the VMware Version Compatibility Matrix.
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Download the virtual machine template from the VMware website.
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Select one of the entities as the container for the virtual machine:
- data center;
- a folder;
- cluster;
- or a resource pool.
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Right-click on the container and select Deploy OVF Template.
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Optional: On the local DNS server, create an A record for the virtual machine to be deployed.
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Select a template file in
.ova
format. -
Enter the name of the virtual machine.
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Accept the license agreement.
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Set the network parameters.
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Enter a new password to access Cloud Availability and the address of the NTP server.
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Synchronize time on a virtual machine with VMware vCenter Server®, Platform Services Controller™, and VMware ESXi™. Use a shared NTP server.
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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. -
Optional: change your password the first time you log in.
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Go to Getting Started → Run initial setup wizard.
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Enter the name of the local site.
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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.
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Enter the vCenter Administrator name and password (use local SSO credentials with vCenter Server).
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Accept the certificate.
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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
- St. Petersburg
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In the Organization Admin field, enter the name of the Cloud Director organization
administrator
in the formatadministrator-<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. -
In the Organization Password field, enter the administrator's password.
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Optional: To enable On-Premises site access from Cloud Director, enable the Allow access from cloud toggle switch.
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Accept the certificate.
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Optional: To configure placement settings for virtual machines migrated from the cloud to the local vCenter, enable the Configure local placement toggle switch.
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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.