Connect disaster recovery through Cloud Availability

Last update: February 22 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 created of a VMware-based public cloud.

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

1. Connect disaster recovery.
2. Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel.
3. Create replication job.
4. Optional: create a disaster recovery plan.
5. Optional: test-failover.

1. Connect disaster recovery⁠

Из публичного облака у другого провайдера

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, provide the data you received from the provider.

3. Provide similar Selectel cloud data to your provider to set up connectivity on the public cloud side. Specify as the Service endpoint address:

   • St. Petersburg — https://vcav-spb-1.vmw.selectel.ru
   • Moscow — https://vcav-msk-1.vmw.selectel.ru

Из On-Premises или приватного облака

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 from VMware website.

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

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

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 your virtual machine with VMware vCenter Server®, Platform Services Controller™, and VMware ESXi™. Use a shared NTP server.

12. Open the Cloud Availability administration page at https://<vcda_ip_address>/ui/admin. Specify <vcda_ip_address> — the IP address you specified when you deployed the virtual machine from the .ovf template.

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

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

15. Enter the name of the local site.

16. Under Lookup Service, enter the Lookup service address of your vCenter. If the installation is with a split PSC, the Lookup service is located on it.

17. Enter the vCenter Administrator name and password (use local SSO credentials with vCenter Server).

18. Accept the certificate.

19. 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

20. In the Organization Admin field, enter the name of the Cloud Director organization administrator in the format administrator-<s-xxxx>@<s-xxxx>, where <s-xxxx> is the name of the organization, can be viewed in the Cloud Director address bar or in control panel under VMware-based Cloud in the organization list.

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

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

23. Accept the certificate.

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

25. Press Finish.

2. Connect to Cloud Availability with Selectel⁠

Use the Connect to Cloud Availability in Selectel instructions.

3. Create a replication job⁠

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 emergency switching⁠

Use the Test Failover instructions in the VMware documentation.