Abiquo 5.2 introduces the DRaaS feature with an initial integration of Zerto into the multi-cloud platform to provide self-service disaster recovery on demand for your users. This will enable you to provide a more complete Managed Services platform.
The DRaaS feature uses a separate Zerto plugin and requires a separate license to enable you to load the plugin in your platform.
Dashboards and business policy
The Abiquo dashboard displays the number of VMs the tenant has protected with disaster recovery.And administrators can limit the number of VMs that users can protect at the virtual datacenter or tenant levels.
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To control access to this feature, there are two new privileges that are only assigned to the cloud administrator role by default.
DRaaS in infrastructure
To start working with the DRaaS feature, in the Infrastructure view, you can define the protection managers. For each protection manager, you will also need a recovery protection manager.
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Within the recovery vCenter, 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 networks with the same name and a tenant suffix for each tenant. They should then edit the Abiquo enterprise and add an enterprise property with the key "DR-code" and a value of the tenant's network suffix.
Cloud users protect VMs with DR
In the cloud, on the VM control panel, there is a new button to Enable DR protection or Disable DR protection for the VM. To protect a VM with DRaaS, the user just clicks the shield DR protect button.
In the Abiquo backend, the platform creates Zerto Protection Groups. The Zerto Protection Group are transparent to the Abiquo user and initially, Abiquo creates one Protection Group for the VMs in each Abiquo virtual appliance.
On the VM icon, if the VM is protected the DRaaS shield symbol is drawn with a dark line.
Failovers and failover testing
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