Connect disaster recovery through Cloud Availability

Last update: September 26 2024

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 in the Selectel control panel, you must have organization established VMware-based public cloud.

If disaster recovery is connected, in the event of a crash perform emergency switching.

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

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 set up 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 compatibility of VMware Cloud Director Availability™ and VMware vCenter Server® versions in the VMware version compatibility matrix.

2. Download the virtual machine template at VMware website.

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

   • data center;
   • a folder;
   • cluster;
   • or 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 the format .ova.

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 by clicking on the link https://<vcda_ip_address>/ui/admin. Specify <vcda_ip_address> — The IP address you specified when you deployed the virtual machine from the template .ovf.

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

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

15. Enter the name of the local site.

16. In the section Lookup Service 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 section Cloud Details in the field Public IP Endpoint 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 field Organization Admin enter the name of the administrator of the Cloud Director organization in the format administrator-<s-xxxx>@<s-xxxx>where <s-xxxx> — organization name, can be viewed in the Cloud Director address bar or in the control panels under VMware-based cloud on the list of organizations.

21. In the field Organization Password enter the administrator password.

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

23. Accept the certificate.

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

25. Click Finish.

Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel⁠

Use the instructions Connect to Selectel Cloud Availability.

Create a replication task⁠

Use the subsection Create a replication job.

optional: create a disaster recovery plan⁠

Use the instructions Recovery Plans VMware documentation.

Optional: test the emergency switchover⁠

Use the instructions Test Failover VMware documentation.