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Introduction to DRaaS
The new DRaaS feature in Abiquo 5.2 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.
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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. For more details, see Configure dashboard display
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The platform will include the new DR protected VM attribute in your accounting data and in the pricing estimates for deploying VMs.
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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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You can later edit the protection manager if you need to make changes.
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Tenant networks
For 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 base name and a tenant suffix for each tenant. An administrator must configure the base name of the network in abiquo.properties. The Cloud administrator should then edit each Abiquo enterprise and add an enterprise property with the key "DR-code" and a value of the tenant's network suffix. See Manage Enterprises#Entertenantdetailsandmetadata
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Cloud users protect VMs with the disaster recovery service
In the cloud, on the VM control panel, there is a new button to Enable DR protection or Disable DR protection for the VM.
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On the VM icon, if the VM is protected, the DRaaS shield symbol is drawn with a darker line.
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Failover and failover testing
In this version, you should use Zerto directly to perform all failover tests and failovers. After a failover, you can capture the VM into Abiquo in the recovery datacenter. In order to do this, the administrator must configure 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
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