Creating vStor Partnerships

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.

Creating a new partnership using vStor Web Interface

To create a new vStor partnership:

1. Select Replication from the navigation menu.

2. Click the Add new button in the Partnerships section.

3. Enter the address of your partner vStor instance and credentials to its web interface:

Creating a new Replication Relationship using vStor 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 replication partner. You also have to select a Replication Relationship Priority for the relationship, which determines the sequence of replication tasks when they coincide.

You can also toggle Protect Replicated Volumes to enable deletion protection on the replicated volumes on the target system. This prevents accidental or unauthorized deletion of replicated data. For details, see Replication Deletion Protection:

See also. Replication deletion protection requires MFA to be enabled on the source vStor system. There is no MFA check on the replication target. For details, see Using Multi-factor Authentication (MFA).

Scheduling a replication using vStor Web Interface

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.

Creating a new partnership using vStor CLI

To create a new partnership using vStor CLI, use the following command and specify the address, username, and the password of the remote server:

vstor partner add --remote_addr <remote_server> --remote_user <remote_username> --remote_pass <remote_password>          

Creating a new Replication Relationship using vStor CLI

To create a new replication relationship using vStor CLI, use the following command and specify source and partner volumes:

vstor relationship create --vol_id <source_volume> --partner_id <partner_volume> 

Scheduling a replication using vStor Web Interface

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):

vstor schedule create --rel_id <relationship_id> --schedule_type <type>

See also. For more details on best practices for backup storage, see Data Backup: Best Practices.