Geo Redundant Cluster Disaster Recovery

This chapter contains the following topics:

Disaster recovery for geo redundant clusters

At some time during normal operations of your Crosswork Network Controller cluster, you may find that you need to recover the entire system. This can be the result of one or more malfunctioning nodes, one or more malfunctioning services or applications, or a disaster that destroys the hosts for the entire cluster.

This section explains the steps needed to perform to recover your geo redundant clusters.

Recover the standby cluster

This topic explains the recovery steps that must be executed when the standby cluster is destroyed.

Procedure


Step 1

Deploy the new standby cluster with the same IP and Virtual IP (VIP) addresses.

Step 2

Install the same version of applications as the active cluster.

Step 3

Enable pairing mode in the active cluster. For more information, see Enable Geo Redundancy

Step 4

Enable geo redundancy on the standby cluster. For more information, see Enable Geo Redundancy

Step 5

Enter the Cross Cluster settings on the new standby cluster as per the settings on the active cluster. Alternatively, you can enable the Apply the same configuration to peer cluster checkbox for the Cross Cluster settings on the active cluster, and save the settings.

Step 6

On the Cross Cluster window, use the Initiate Sync option to ensure the standby cluster pulls data from the active cluster.


Recover the active cluster

This topic explains the recovery steps that must be executed when the active cluster is destroyed.

Procedure


Step 1

Switch the standby cluster to become the new active cluster. For more information, see Geo Redundancy Switchover.

Step 2

Re-deploy the destroyed cluster (currently, the standby cluster) with the same IP and Virtual IP (VIP) addresses.

Step 3

Install the same version of applications as the active cluster.

Step 4

Enable pairing mode in the active cluster. For more information, see Enable Geo Redundancy

Step 5

Edit the Cross Cluster inventory file (.yaml) to reflect the current state of the Cross Cluster after the switchover in step 1.

Step 6

On the Geo Redundancy window of the active cluster, click Browse and upload the edited inventory file (.yaml file).

Step 7

Enable geo redundancy on the standby cluster. For more information, see Enable Geo Redundancy

Step 8

Enter the Cross Cluster settings on the new standby cluster as per the settings on the active cluster. Alternatively, you can enable the Apply the same configuration to peer cluster checkbox for the Cross Cluster settings on the active cluster, and save the settings.

Step 9

On the Cross Cluster window, synchronize data to ensure the standby cluster pulls data from the active cluster.

Step 10

(Optional) Switch the standby cluster to become the new active cluster.