Manage replication tasks

You can manage replication tasks from your cloud or the Selectel cloud. This instruction covers managing tasks from the Selectel cloud.

Create a replication task

Learn more about setting up replication in the Create a Protection VMware documentation guide.

From the Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → the Cloud Director section.
In the Menu, select Availability.
Go to the Incoming Replications section.
Click ( **New protection **).
In the Cloud vApps and VMs step, in the Source site field, select the primary site from which the virtual machines will be replicated.
Select the virtual machines you want to replicate. They must be powered on—as long as a virtual machine is powered off, its replication will not start.
Click Next.
In the Destination VDC and Storage policy step, select the virtual data center in the Selectel cloud where the replication will take place.
Select the storage policy that matches your virtual data center.
Click Next.
In the Settings step, specify the RPO value; for details, see the Recovery Point Objective VMware documentation guide. When choosing a value, take into account infrastructure requirements: with a slow internet connection or a large volume of modified data on the primary virtual machine, increase the RPO value.
Turn on the Enable retention policy toggle switch and configure the policy for creating and retaining virtual machine copies:
- Instances — the number of replication instances to be retained simultaneously;
- Distance — the frequency of copy creation in units from the Unit field;
- Unit — the unit of time measurement (hours, days, months, etc.).
Optional: to set the initial synchronization time, in the Delay start synchronization block, turn on the toggle switch and specify the date and time for the initial synchronization of virtual machines on the primary and secondary sites.
Optional: to exclude individual disks from replication and save disk space on the secondary site, in the Exclude disks block, turn on the toggle switch.
Optional: if a copy of the replicated virtual machine already exists in the Selectel cloud and you want to synchronize it with the virtual machine on the primary site, in the Configure Seed VM block, turn on the toggle switch and specify the target machine.
Click Next.
If you turned on the toggle switch in the Configure Seed VM block, in the Seed VM step, select the virtual machine copies for synchronization.
If you turned on the toggle switch in the Exclude disks block, in the Replicated Disks step, select the disks to replicate.
In the Ready to complete step, verify the settings and click Finish. Creating the replication task will take some time.

Create a reverse replication task

After failover, you can configure reverse replication — from the secondary site (Selectel cloud) to your primary site. To do this, the replication task for which the failover was performed must have the Failed-Over status.

Virtual machines will remain accessible during reverse replication.

Learn more about reverse replication tasks in the Perform a Reverse Task VMware documentation guide.

From the Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → the Cloud Director section.
In the Menu, select Availability.
Go to the Incoming Replications section.
Select the task for the virtual machine that was replicated.
In the All actions menu, select Reverse.
Click Reverse.
In the new task, on the Cloud vApps and VMs tab, the primary site and virtual data centers will be selected automatically.
Configure the remaining parameters as described in creating a replication task.

Delete a replication task

From the Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: in the top menu, click Products → VMware-based Cloud → the Cloud Director section.
In the Menu, select Availability.
Go to the Incoming Replications section.
Select the task for the virtual machine that was replicated.
In the All actions menu, select Delete replication.
Click Delete.