Introduction
This guide is for performing a Cloudist VDC virtual machine protection to another Cloudist VDC site.
Prerequisites
You must be onboarded in the Cloudist Portal and have:
A provisioned Virtual Data Center in the Cloudist VDC service
Your customer/organization number
Your username and password
To create a specific account to use for DR purposes:
Log in to https://portal.cloudist.solutions
Select Virtual Data Center
Select the Region you would like to create the account in (it is recommended to create one in the source and destination regions for Cloud to Cloud protection)
Click Log in to VDC
Go to Administration, Access Control, Users and click New
Enter a username, password and ensure the User has the Organization Administrator role
Click Save
The username in this example when using DRaaS would be drservice@12345-5678 (your org number)
Protecting a virtual machine Cloud to Cloud
Log in to https://portal.cloudist.solutions
Select Virtual Data Center
Select the Region you want to protect to or from (this can be managed from both source and destination) and click on Log in to VDC
Once logged into your VDC, click More, then Availability
Go to Incoming Replications
Click on the New protection icon
Provide the credentials configured at the source site
username: username@org-number
Ensure Source Site is set correctly, since this is an incoming protection, the site is different from the one we are currently working in
Select a VM/vApp to protect and click Next
Choose the VDC you would like to migrate to
Choose the Storage Policy the virtual machine should be recovered on, then click Next
Choose an appropriate SLA profile for the replication
Choose whether to Exclude disks that are not required for replication
Choose to whether to Configure Seed VMs if you have perhaps an already replicated older copy
Review the Ready To Complete summary and click Finish to begin the first replication
In this example, we are protecting to SE-Central, from SE-North
Observe the progress of the initial configuration and replication
