Chapter 8. Creating Disaster Recovery Policy on Hub cluster

OpenShift DR uses Disaster Recovery Policy (DRPolicy) resources (cluster scoped) on the RHACM hub cluster to deploy, failover, and relocate workloads across managed clusters.

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that there is a set of two clusters, which are peered for storage level replication and that CSI Volume Replication is enabled.
  • Ensure that there is a scheduling interval that determines at what frequency data replication is performed which also serves as a coarse grained Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for the workload using the DRPolicy.
  • Ensure that each cluster in the policy is assigned a S3 profile name, which is configured using the ConfigMap of the OpenShift DR cluster and hub operators.

Procedure

  1. On the Hub cluster, navigate to Installed Operators in the openshift-dr-system project and click on OpenShift DR Hub Operator. You should see two available APIs, DRPolicy and DRPlacementControl.
  2. Click Create instance for DRPolicy and click YAML view.

  3. Copy and save the following YAML to filename drpolicy.yaml after replacing <cluster1> and <cluster2> with the correct names of your managed clusters in RHACM. 

    apiVersion: ramendr.openshift.io/v1alpha1
kind: DRPolicy
metadata:
  name: odr-policy-5m
spec:
  drClusterSet:
  - name: <cluster1>
    s3ProfileName: s3-primary
  - name: <cluster2>
    s3ProfileName: s3-secondary
  schedulingInterval: 5m
    Note

    There is no need to specify a namespace to create this resource because DRPolicy is a cluster-scoped resource.

  4. Copy the contents of your unique drpolicy.yaml file into the YAML view. You must completely replace the original content.

  5. Click Create on the YAML view screen.

    Important

    The DRPolicy scheduling interval must match the interval configured in the Creating VolumeReplicationClass resource section.

  6. Verify that the DRPolicy is created successfully by running the command: 

    $ oc get drpolicy odr-policy-5m -n openshift-dr-system -o jsonpath='{.status.conditions[].reason}{"\n"}'

    Example output: 

    Succeeded