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Manage replication jobs
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Manage replication jobs

Replication jobs can be managed on the side of your cloud or Selectel cloud. The instructions cover how to work with jobs on the Selectel cloud side.

Create a replication job⁠

See the Create a Protection instructions in the VMware documentation for more information on configuring replication.

  1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: VMware-based Cloud → Cloud Director.

  2. From the Menu menu, select Availability.

  3. Go to Incoming Replications.

  4. Press (New protection).

  5. In the Cloud vApps and VMs step, in the Source site field, select the primary site from which the virtual machines will be replicated.

  6. Mark the virtual machines that you want to replicate. They must be enabled — as long as the virtual machine is powered off, its replication will not start.

  7. Press Next.

  8. In the Destination VDC and Storage policy step, select the virtual data center in the Selectel cloud to which replication will occur.

  9. Select the storage policy that corresponds to your virtual data center.

  10. Press Next.

  11. In the Settings step, specify the RPO value, see the Recovery Point Objective instructions in the VMware documentation for details. When selecting a value, consider the infrastructure requirements: if you have a slow Internet connection or a large amount of modifiable data on the primary virtual machine, you should increase the RPO value.

  12. Enable the Enable retention policy toggle switch and configure the policy for creating and storing copies of virtual machines:

    • Instances — the number of replication instances that will be stored at a time;
    • Distance — frequency of copy creation in units from the Unit field;
    • Unit — a unit of time (hours, days, months, etc.). д.).

  13. Optional: To set the time of the first synchronization, in the Delay start synchronization block, enable the toggle switch and specify the date and time of the first synchronization of virtual machines on the primary and backup sites.

  14. Optional: to exclude individual disks from replication and save disk space on the backup site, enable the toggle switch in the Exclude disks block.

  15. Optional: If there is already a copy of the replicated virtual machine in the Selectel cloud and you want to synchronize it with the virtual machine on the primary site, in the Configure Seed VM block, enable the toggle switch and specify the target machine.

  16. Press Next.

  17. If you enabled the toggle switch in the Configure Seed VM block, in the Seed VM step, select the virtual machine copies to synchronize.

  18. If you enabled the toggle switch in the Exclude disks block, in the Replicated Disks step, mark the disks to be replicated.

  19. At the Ready to complete step, check the settings and click Finish. Creating a replication job will take time.

Create a reverse replication job⁠

After failover, you can configure reverse replication — from the backup site (Selectel cloud) to your primary site. To do this, the replication job that failed over must be in Failed-Over status.

During the reverse replication process, the virtual machines will be available.

For more information about reverse replication jobs, see the Perform a Reverse Task instructions in the VMware documentation.

  1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: VMware-based Cloud → Cloud Director.
  2. From the Menu menu, select Availability.
  3. Go to Incoming Replications.
  4. Mark the job for the virtual machine on which replication was performed.
  5. From the All actions menu, select Reverse.
  6. Press Reverse.
  7. In the new job, the primary site and virtual data centers will be automatically selected in the Cloud vApps and VMs tab.
  8. Configure the other settings as you did when creating a replication job.

Delete replication job⁠

  1. From Control Panel, open the Cloud Director panel: VMware-based Cloud → Cloud Director.
  2. From the Menu menu, select Availability.
  3. Go to Incoming Replications.
  4. Mark the job for the virtual machine on which replication was performed.
  5. From the All actions menu, select Delete replication.
  6. Press Delete.