Connect disaster recovery via Cloud Availability

You can connect disaster recovery to the Selectel cloud from a VMware Public Cloud at another provider, from an On-Premises infrastructure, or from a private cloud at another provider.

To connect disaster recovery in the Selectel control panel, you must have an organization created in the VMware-based public cloud.

If disaster recovery is connected, in the event of a disaster, perform a failover.

Connect disaster recovery.
Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel.
Create a replication job.
Optional: create a disaster recovery plan.
Optional: test failover.

1. Connect disaster recovery

From a public cloud at another provider
From On-Premises or a private cloud

From the public cloud provider for which you are setting up disaster recovery, request the following data:
- Local site name;
- Service endpoint address.
Submit a ticket to configure connectivity on the Selectel side. In the ticket, specify the data received from the provider.
Provide the equivalent Selectel cloud data to your provider so they can configure connectivity on the public cloud side. Specify the following Service endpoint address:
- St. Petersburg — https://vcav-spb-1.vmw.selectel.ru
- Moscow — https://vcav-msk-1.vmw.selectel.ru

Check the compatibility of VMware Cloud Director Availability™ and VMware vCenter Server® versions in the VMware version interoperability matrix.
Download the virtual machine template from the VMware website.
Select one of the following entities as a container for the virtual machine:
- data center;
- folder;
- cluster;
- or resource pool.
Right-click the container and select Deploy OVF Template.
Optional: create an A-record on your local DNS server for the virtual machine being deployed.
Select the template file in .ova format.
Enter the virtual machine name.
Accept the license agreement.
Set the network parameters.
Enter a new password for accessing Cloud Availability and the address of the NTP server.
Synchronize the time on the virtual machine with VMware vCenter Server®, Platform Services Controller™, and VMware ESXi™. Use a common NTP server.
Open the Cloud Availability administration page at https://<vcda_ip_address>/ui/admin. Specify <vcda_ip_address> — the IP address you specified when deploying the virtual machine from the .ovf template.
Optional: change the password upon your first login.
Go to Getting Started → Run initial setup wizard.
Enter the local site name.
In the Lookup Service section, enter your vCenter's Lookup service address. If the installation uses an external PSC, the Lookup service is located on it.
Enter the vCenter administrator name and password (use local SSO credentials for vCenter Server).
Accept the certificate.
In the Cloud Details section, in the Public IP Endpoint field, enter the address of the remote Cloud Availability site:
- St. Petersburg — https://vcav-spb-1.vmw.selectel.ru
- Moscow — https://vcav-msk-1.vmw.selectel.ru
In the Organization Admin field, enter the Cloud Director organization administrator name in the format administrator-<s-xxxx>@<s-xxxx>, where <s-xxxx> is the organization name, which can be found in the Cloud Director address bar or in the control panel under Cloud powered by VMware in the organization list.
In the Organization Password field, enter the administrator password.
Optional: to enable access to the on-premises site from Cloud Director, turn on the Allow access from cloud toggle switch.
Accept the certificate.
Optional: to configure placement settings for virtual machines migrated from the cloud to the local vCenter, turn on the Configure local placement toggle switch.
Click Finish.

2. Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel

See the instructions in Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel.

3. Create a replication job

See the Create a replication job subsection.

4. Optional: create a disaster recovery plan

See the Recovery Plans guide in the VMware documentation.

5. Optional: test the failover

See the Test Failover guide in the VMware documentation.