Information About Disaster Recovery
In the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution, which includes Cisco SD-WAN Manager, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, only the Cisco SD-WAN Manager is stateful and can't be deployed in an active/active mode. The disaster recovery solution aims to deploy Cisco SD-WAN Manager across two data centers in primary/secondary mode.
Disaster recovery provides an administrator-triggered failover process. When disaster recovery is registered, data is replicated automatically between the primary and secondary Cisco SD-WAN Manager clusters. If necessary, you can manually initiate a failover to the secondary cluster.
Disaster recovery is validated as follows:
Release |
Validated for |
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Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.4.1a, Cisco SD-WAN Release 20.4.1, and earlier |
Three-node cluster |
Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.4.1a and Cisco SD-WAN Release 20.4.1 |
Six-node cluster |
Cisco IOS XE Catalyst SD-WAN Release 17.5.1a and Cisco SD-WAN Release 20.5.1 |
Deployment with a single primary node |