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This document describes how to configure Abiquo for DRaaS with Zerto.

Add license

The Abiquo DRaaS plugin is part of the Abiquo platform install but it requires a separate license  that must be present to load the plugin .

Set Abiquo Configuration Properties

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1. On the Abiquo Server, enable VM duplicate names in different datacenters. See Configure Abiquo to capture VMs with duplicate names

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   abiquo.virtualmachine.namesperdc=true

   
   

2. On the Remote Services server, set the NARS async pool property, which must have a value of 1. Note that this is the default value for this integration

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   abiquo.nars.async.pool.zerto.max=1

   
   

3. Configure the network name prefixes for DRaaS networks, for recovery and failover tests. 
   
   

   1. Configure the name of the vCenter network that recovered VMs will use. For a test environment where you are only using DRaaS with one enterprise, you can create a network in vCenter with this name for the enterprise and create matching external network in Abiquo.

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      abiquo.draas.recovery.network.name=Draasnet

      If you are using DRaaS with more tenants, in Abiquo you must create an external network for each enterprise to match one in the recovery vCenter with a name such as DraasnetEnterprise1. The first part of the network name is this property's value, and the second part is the value of an enterprise property with a key of "DR-code". 

   2. Configure the default network used for failover tests by the DRaaS provider. The naming convention is the same as for the recovery network. 

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      abiquo.draas.recovery.testnetwork.name=DraasTestnet

      
      

4. Optionally configure recovery host details

   1. Default host name where the selected VMs will be recovered by the DRaaS provider. Accepts wildcard(*) to match any string

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      abiquo.draas.recovery.cluster.name=*Cluster*

      
      

   2. Default datastore name that the VMs will use when recovered by the DRaaS provider.  Accepts wildcard(*) to match any string

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      abiquo.draas.recovery.datastore.name=*datastore-local*

      
      

   3. Default folder name where the selected VMs will be recovered by the DRaaS provider. Accepts wildcard(*) to match any string

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      abiquo.draas.recovery.folder.name=/

      
      

5. Optionally configure protection group defaults  – could they manually set other values?

   1. Set default priority for the protection groups. This property can have the following values: Low, Medium, High.

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      abiquo.draas.pg.priority=Medium

      
      

   2. Set default journal history for the protection groups in hours

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      abiquo.draas.pg.journalhistory.hours=24

      
      

   3. Set default recovery point objective for the protection groups in hours

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      abiquo.draas.pg.rpo.seconds=180

      
      

6. Optionally configure the delay between synchronization of DRaaS in seconds

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   abiquo.draas.check.delay.seconds=60

   
   

Set Zerto configuration properties

On the Remote Services server, edit the abiquo.properties file and configure the following Zerto properties 

# Delay between polling requests to update Zerto tasks status
#zerto.polling.delay.seconds=60
# Wait time that finished Zerto tasks require to propagate the changes.
#zerto.propagation.delay.seconds=10
# Allow Zerto plugin to use insecure connections
#zerto.ssl.allow.insecure=false
#Logger level for Feign HTTP client. Valid values: none, basic, headers, full. The default value is none.
#zerto.feign.logger.level=none

Assign privileges to the users

There are two new privileges for this feature.

By default only the Cloud Administrator role has these privileges.