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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 complement the existing Backup as a Service feature and enable you to provide a more complete Managed Services platform.
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In Abiquo 5.2 the Zerto DRaaS plugin supports private cloud environments with VMware vCenter.
The administrator can configure a Zerto environment with a protected datacenter and a separate recovery datacenter that are registered and register them in Abiquo.
To control access to this feature, there are two new privileges that are only assigned to the cloud administrator role by default. , and by default only the Cloud administrator role has these privileges.
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Privileges: View and manage protection managers, Manage VM disaster recovery protection |
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Dashboards
The Abiquo dashboard displays the number of VMs the tenant has protected with disaster recovery.
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And of course, you can set prices for VM disaster recovery protection.
The platform will include the new DR protected VM attribute will be included in your accounting data and in the pricing estimates for deploying VMs.
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To start working with the DRaaS feature, in the Infrastructure view, you can define the protection Protection managers. For each protection manager, you will also need a recovery protection manager.
Abiquo It is easy to configure Abiquo to use a standard DRaaS configuration of Zerto Protection Managers for vCenter.
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When a VM fails over, it should be ' replicated ' from one vCenter (production) to another (recovery).
Each protection manager works with a single vCenter and each Abiquo virtual datacenter works with a single vCenter. This means that administrators do not need to link protection managers with virtual datacenters in Abiquo. Each protection manager can cover the group of Abiquo virtual datacenters with VMs in the same vCenter. For configuration reasons, the administrator should assign Available datacenters, which is where the users can access the protection managers.
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