Protection managers

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 with self-service.

For more details, see https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311377205 and https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311371965

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
1. For the Endpoint enter the URL for connecting to the protection manager API.
  - Zerto 9.7 U2: https://zerto.host.domain and the port ( the default is 443 and you do not need to enter this value)
  - Zerto v8.5: https://zerto.host.domain:9669/v1/ with /v1/ at the end of the URL.
2. For the User and Password, enter the credentials for the ZVM appliances
3. For the Recovery protection manager, select another Zerto protection manager that is paired with this protection manager for recovery.
  
  Create a protection manager with Zerto 9.7 endpoint and credentials
For the Available datacenters, select at least one datacenter from which the NARS remote service can connect with Zerto, to assist Abiquo in managing the disaster recovery.

Create a protection manager selecting an available datacenter

Related pages

Abiquo DRaaS
- Quick guide to configure a test environment: Abiquo and Zerto test environment This guide has not been updated for Zerto 9.7 U2
- Set 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