Replication groups can be local to a VDC or can protect data by replicating data across sites.
Prerequisites
This operation requires the System Administrator role in ECS.
If you want the replication group to span multiple VDCs, you must ensure that the VDCs are federated (joined) to the primary VDC, and that storage pools have been created in the VDCs that will be included in the replication group.
Steps
In the ECS Portal, select
Manage > Replication Group.
On the
Replication Group Management page, click
New Replication Group.
On the
New Replication Group page, in the
Name field, type a name (for example,
ReplicationGroup1).
Optionally, in the
Replicate to All Sites field, click
On for this replication group. You can only turn this setting on when you create the replication group; you cannot turn it off later.
For a Passive configuration, leave this setting
Off.
Option
Description
Replicate to All Sites Off
The replication group uses default replication. With default replication, data is stored at the primary site and a full copy is stored at a secondary site chosen from the sites within the replication group. The secondary copy is protected by triple-mirroring and erasure coding. This process provides data durability with storage efficiency.
Replicate to All Sites On
The replication group makes a full readable copy of all objects to all sites (VDCs) within the replication group. Having full readable copies of objects on all VDCs in the replication group provides data durability and improves local performance at all sites at the cost of storage efficiency.
In the
Geo Replication Type field, click
Active or
Passive. Active is the default ECS configuration. You cannot change this setting after you create the replication group.
Passive is available only when you have three or more sites.
Passive cannot be selected if
Replicate to All Sites is
On.
Click
Add VDC to add storage pools from VDCs to the replication group.
The steps to add storage pools to a replication group depends on whether you have a single VDC, an Active, or Passive environment.
To add storage pools to an Active (or to a single site) configuration, use the steps below.
From the
Virtual Data Center list, select the VDC that will provide a storage pool for the replication group.
From the
Storage Pool list, select the storage pool that belongs to the selected VDC.
To include other sites in the replication group, click
Add VDC.
Repeat these steps for each storage pool that you want to add to the replication group.
To add storage pools for a Passive configuration, complete the following steps.
In the
Target VDC for Replication Virtual Data Center list, select the VDC that you want to add as the replication target.
If you have a Hosted VDC that is hosted off-premise by a third-party data center (a backup site), it is automatically selected as the replication target.
In the
Target VDC for Replication Storage Pool list, select the storage pool that belongs to the selected VDC.
In each of the two
Source VDC for Replication Virtual Data Center lists, select the VDC that you want to add as the active site.
In each of the two
Source VDC for Replication Storage Pool lists, select the storage pool that belongs to each selected VDC. These storage pools will provide storage at the two active sites.
Click
Save.
Next steps
After you create the replication group, you can monitor the copying of user data and metadata to the new VDC that you added to the replication group on the
Monitor > Geo Replication > Geo Bootstrap Processing tab. When all the user data and metadata is successfully replicated to the new VDC, the
Bootstrap State is
Done and the
Bootstrap Progress (%) is
100.
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