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This page describes how to set up an integration with a disaster recovery system for use in private cloud data centers on the multi-cloud platform, so that users can enable disaster recovery for their VMs |
Introduction to protection managers for DRaaS
In private cloud datacenters, Abiquo offers disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) with a plugin that supports the popular Zerto disaster recovery system. This is a separate plugin with its own license.
In Abiquo you will create protection managers to register your Zerto configuration.
Display protection managers
To display protection managers:
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Privileges: Access infrastructure view and private DCs, View datacenter details, View and manage protection managers |
Go to Infrastructure → Protection managers
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with self-service. For more details, see Abiquo DRaaS and Protect a VM with disaster recovery |
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Abiquo 6.1.x supports Zerto 9.7 U2 on Linux only |
Create a protection manager
To create a protection manager for disaster recovery:
Go to Infrastructure → Protection managers
Click the + add button and enter the General information about the protection manager
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Property
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Description
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Name
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Name to identify protection manager
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Type
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Select the disaster recovery protection manager type
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Endpoint
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For the Endpoint enter the URL for connecting to the protection manager API.
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Zerto 9.7 U2:
https://zerto.host.domainand the port ( the default is443and you do not need to enter this value)Zerto v8.5:
https://zerto.host.domain:9669/v1/
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User
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User for the disaster recovery system.
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Password
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Password for the disaster recovery system.
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Recovery protection manager
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with
/v1/at the end of the URL.
For the User and Password, enter the credentials for the ZVM appliances
For the Recovery protection manager, select another Zerto protection manager that is paired with this protection manager for recovery.
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Property
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Description
For the Available datacenters
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, select at least one datacenter
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from which the NARS
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remote service can connect with Zerto, to assist Abiquo in managing the disaster recovery.
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Related pages
Quick guide to configure a test environment: Abiquo and Zerto test environment
This guide has not been updated for Zerto 9.7 U2Set Abiquo Configuration Properties: Configure properties for disaster recovery as a service with Zerto
Users enable disaster recovery for VMs: Protect a VM with disaster recovery
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