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The DRaaS feature uses Zerto to enable you to offer self-service disaster recovery on demand. This will enable users to supplement their on-demand backups, as part of a fully protected multi-cloud platform. When users protect VMs, Abiquo creates virtual protection groups (per virtual appliance) and manages VM protection.
Contact Abiquo Customer Service to obtain your separate license for the DRaaS feature with the Zerto plugin.
In Abiquo 5.2, you can configure DRaaS for private cloud environments with Zerto and VMware vCenter. Abiquo supports a Zerto environment where you can protect a datacenter and fail over to a recovery datacenter. See Abiquo and Zerto test environment.
To work with Zerto failover in Abiquo, you must configure support for Duplicate VM names and configure the Zerto plugin in the Abiquo platform using Abiquo Configuration Properties#zerto. This is because the Zerto recovery VM is a replica of the original VM and it has the same name.
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After you configure DRaaS, when you onboard a VM that is protected by Zerto, the platform will detect that it is DR protected.
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Tenant networks
In the recovery vCenter, the administrator should create a network for each tenant to use for recovery and failover testing. When the user protects a VM, the platform will search for the tenant's recovery network by name to add it to the Zerto virtual protection group. For
To define the recovery vCenternetworks for multiple tenants, the administrator should create a network for each tenant to use for recovery and failover testing.To enable a multi-tenant Zerto environment, the administrator should create all the base name and register it in the abiquo.properties file. Then for each tenant the administrator should define a DR-code.
For example, the default network base name is "Draasnet".
And if you had three enterprises called "Enterprise1", "Enterprise2", "Enterprise 3", you could use the DR-codes of "Ent1", "Ent2", and "Ent3".
The network administrator should create networks with the same base name and a plus the DR-code tenant suffix for each tenant. An administrator must configure the base name of the network in abiquo.properties. The Cloud
So in our example, we would create three networks called: "DraasnetEnt1", "DraasnetEnt2", and "DraasnetEnt3".
The administrator should then edit each Abiquo enterprise and add an enterprise property with the key "DR-code" and a the value of the tenant's network suffix.
In this case, for "Enterprise1" it would be "Ent1", and so on.
See Manage Enterprises#Entertenantdetailsandmetadata
In order to onboard recovered VMs, you can define the recovery networks in the recovery datacenter in Abiquo. To capture a VM, you will need to know the network tag of the network that it is in.
The easiest networking option is to create an external network as the recovery network for each enterprise. When you create the external network in the platform, enter the network tag.
See Create an external network for cross-platform networking.
If you wish to use private networks, it may be possible to define a recovery virtual datacenter for each virtual datacenter and deploy a VM on a custom private network with an appropriate name.
In any case, you should check the Zerto configuration for networks and network tags, and determine how best to configure the recovery networks for your environment.
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Cloud users protect VMs with the disaster recovery service
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In this version, you should use Zerto directly to perform all failover tests and Zerto will perform failovers. After a failover, you can capture the VM into Abiquo in the recovery datacenter. In order to do this, the administrator must configure have configured the use of duplicate VM names. See Configure Abiquo to capture VMs with duplicate names. Before the administrator captures a recovered VM, they may also wish to create an external network in Abiquo to represent the tenant's recovery network. See Create an external network for cross-platform networking and Import and Capture Virtual Machines.
Related links:
- Configure Abiquo to capture VMs with duplicate names
- Privileges
- Configure dashboard display
- Capture VMs with duplicate names in different datacenters
- Pricing View
- Abiquo and Zerto test environment
- Abiquo Configuration Properties
- Protection managers
- Create an external network for cross-platform networking
- Manage Enterprises
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