Emergency switching
In the event of a disaster on the primary site, you must start the replicated virtual machine on the backup site manually.
The instructions discuss emergency switching on the Selectel side.If you have access to your cloud's Cloud Availability or On-Premises after a disaster, you can switch to the Selectel cloud in your cloud interface.
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From the Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: from the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → Cloud Director.
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From the Menu menu, select Availability.
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Go to the Incoming Replications section.
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Check the job for the virtual machine to be started.
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From the All actions menu, select Failover.
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Optional: To consolidate multiple separate replication instances, check the Consolidate VM disks checkbox.
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Optional: To power on the virtual machine after recovery, check the Power on recovered VMs checkbox.
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In the Network Settings box, select whether to connect the virtual machine to a specific network or use the preconfigured network settings.
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Click Next.
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Select a restore point.
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Click Next.
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Check the settings and click Finish. After the recovery, the replication job row in the Recovery state column is set to Failed-Over status . After the failed switchover, the virtual machine is in another virtual data center and is no longer replicated.
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After restoring the virtual machine, perform one of the customizations:
- switch back to the main site and re-configure replication — The virtual machine will run on your site again and replicate to the Selectel cloud;
- delete the replication job — The virtual machine will run in the Selectel cloud and will not continue to replicate;
- or set up replication from the backup site to the primary site — the virtual machine will run in the Selectel cloud and will be replicated to your site, and all VMware-based public cloud resources will be paid for.