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Abiquo with Zerto Disaster Recovery enables you to configure DRaaS in your multi-cloud platform so users can easily protect their VMs in private cloud datacenters with VMware vCenter
Abiquo with Zerto Disaster Recovery enables you to configure DRaaS in your multi-cloud platform so users can easily protect their VMs in private cloud datacenters with VMware vCenter
Introduction to DRaaS
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.
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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 the Zerto plugin in the Abiquo platform using Abiquo Configuration Properties#zerto.
To register your Zerto system in Abiquo, create Protection managers.
To control access to this feature, there are two new privileges, and by default only the Cloud administrator role has these privileges.
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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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As usual administrators can set limits for the DRaaS feature.
In this case they can set limits at the tenant, tenant in datacenter, and VDC levels on the number of VMs that users can protect with disaster recovery as a service.
See Manage enterprises#Setallocationlimitsforanenterprisetocontrolresourceusage
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And of course, you can set prices for VM disaster recovery protection with DRaaS. See Pricing view
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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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It is easy to configure Abiquo to use a standard DRaaS configuration of Zerto Protection Managers for vCenter. See Protection managers
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When a VM fails over, it should be replicated from the production vCenter to the recovery vCenter in the recovery datacenter.
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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.
To define the recovery networks for multiple tenants, the administrator should create a base name and register it in the abiquo.properties file.
Then, for each tenant the administrator should define a DR-code.
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In this case, for "Enterprise1" it would be "Ent1", and so on.
See Manage enterprises#Entertenantdetailsandmetadata
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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.
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Behind the scenes, 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.
Abiquo does not make changes to protection groups and the user cannot move a DR protected VM to another Virtual appliance.
If a protection group already exists, the administrator may need to delete it directly in Zerto to enable the user to protect the VM.
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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. See Import and capture virtual machines.
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