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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#zertoconfiguration properties and search for 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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Privileges: View and manage protection managers, Manage VM disaster recovery protection |
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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#Setallocationlimitsforanenterprisetocontrolresourceusageenterprises in the section on set allocation limits.
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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 this case, for "Enterprise1" it would be "Ent1", and so on.
See Manage enterprises#Entertenantdetailsandmetadataenterprise credentials and properties
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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.
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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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