The vStor Partnerships feature lets you connect two vStor instances to facilitate the transfer and synchronization of snapshots. Partnerships ensure your data is periodically replicated, crucial for efficient data management, ensuring data redundancy and continuity across different storage environments.
To create a new vStor partnership:
Select Replication from the navigation menu.
Click the Add new button in the Partnerships section.
Enter the address of your partner vStor instance and credentials to its web interface:
After successfully creating a vStor partnership, you can create a relationship between them. To do that, click the Add new button in the Replication Relationships section, select the volume you want to replicate and the partner. You also have to select a Replication Relationship Priority for the relationship, which determines the sequence of replication tasks when they coincide:
To schedule the replication of any of your unscheduled relationships, click the Add new button in the Schedules section, Now select an unscheduled relationship from a dropdown menu and choose the frequency of your replications:
See also. The time of replications depends on your vStor instance’s NTP settings.
To create a new partnership using vStor CLI, use the following command and specify the address, username, and the password of the remote server:
To create a new replication relationship using vStor CLI, use the following command and specify source and partner volumes:
To create a new replication relationship using vStor CLI, use the following command and specify the ID of the relationship and the type of schedule (interval, weekly, monthly):
See also. For more details on best practices for backup storage, see Data Backup: Best Practices.
