Asynchronous Disaster Recovery
In asynchronous disaster recovery setup, you can replicate Kubernetes applications and their data between two Kubernetes clusters. Here, a separate Portworx Enterprise cluster runs under each Kubernetes cluster.
The following diagram shows an asynchronous DR setup involving two clusters that are geographically apart:
- Application data and supported Kubernetes resources are asynchronously replicated from a source to a destination cluster, which means there is a delay between data changes occurring on the source cluster and their replication to the destination cluster.
- Incremental changes from Kubernetes applications and Portworx data are continuously sent to the destination cluster.
- In case the source cluster becomes unavailable, you can activate the applications in the destination cluster.
Cluster-wide operators are not migrated as part of a DR migration if they are not installed in the same namespace as the applications you want to migrate (for example, in OpenShift, the operator installation defaults to the openshift-operators namespace). As a result, after migration, you will not be able to scale up or down your applications on the destination cluster using storkctl.
Perform the following steps to set up asynchronous DR:
📄 Prerequisites
Prerequisites for Async DR migration.
📄 Enable load balancing
Enable load balancing for asynchronous DR.
📄 Generate and apply a cluster pair spec
How to pair your clusters.
📄 Schedule a migration
How to set up asynchronous schedules.
📄 Failover an application
How to failover an application from one Kubernetes cluster to another.
📄 Failback an application
Find out how to failback an application from the backup Kubernetes cluster to the original one.