Adding disaster recovery to a deployed topology

After you deploy your topology, you can add disaster recovery (DR) to your cloud environment.

About this task

The IBM® Cloud Manager with OpenStack DR project supports backup capabilities through Swift and enables protect and recover of workloads.

Use the following procedure to add the DR feature to a deployed topology.

Note:

The DR feature must be on the same node as the IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack controller node.
To use the DR feature, Swift must be installed and configured successfully in Keystone.

Procedure

Log in to the deployment system as the root user. This is the system where IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack was installed.
Append the ibm-os-dr role to this node in your topology file your-topology-name.json.
For example, in a minimal topology file, you would append role[ibm-os-dr] to the run list for the node.
```
"runlist":[
  "role[ibm-os-allinone-kvm]",
  "role[ibm-os-dr]"
]
```

Update the topology.

$ knife os manage update topology your-topology-name.json

Results

After the deployment completes, you can check the status of the DR service. For information, see Checking status of OpenStack services. You are ready to start using the DR feature. You can use the IBM Cloud Manager - Dashboard to manage the DR service.