Chapter 4. Regional-DR solution for OpenShift Data Foundation 4.1. Components of Regional-DR solution Regional-DR is composed of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and OpenShift Data Foundation components to provide application and data mobility across Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) provides the ability to manage multiple clusters and application lifecycles. Hence, it serves as a control plane in a multi-cluster environment. RHACM is split into two parts: RHACM Hub: components that run on the multi-cluster control plane. Managed clusters: components that run on the clusters that are managed. For more information about this product, see RHACM documentation and the RHACM "Manage Applications" documentation . OpenShift Data Foundation OpenShift Data Foundation provides the ability to provision and manage storage for stateful applications in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. OpenShift Data Foundation is backed by Ceph as the storage provider, whose lifecycle is managed by Rook in the OpenShift Data Foundation component stack. Ceph-CSI provides the provisioning and management of Persistent Volumes for stateful applications. OpenShift Data Foundation stack is now enhanced with the following abilities for disaster recovery: Enable RBD block pools for mirroring across OpenShift Data Foundation instances (clusters) Ability to mirror specific images within an RBD block pool Provides csi-addons to manage per Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) mirroring OpenShift DR OpenShift DR is a set of orchestrators to configure and manage stateful applications across a set of peer OpenShift clusters which are managed using RHACM and provides cloud-native interfaces to orchestrate the life-cycle of an application's state on Persistent Volumes. These include: Protecting an application and its state relationship across OpenShift clusters Failing over an application and its state to a peer cluster Relocate an application and its state to the previously deployed cluster OpenShift DR is split into three components: ODF Multicluster Orchestrator : Installed on the multi-cluster control plane (RHACM Hub), it orchestrates configuration and peering of OpenShift Data Foundation clusters for Metro and Regional DR relationships OpenShift DR Hub Operator : Automatically installed as part of ODF Multicluster Orchestrator installation on the hub cluster to orchestrate failover or relocation of DR enabled applications. OpenShift DR Cluster Operator : Automatically installed on each managed cluster that is part of a Metro and Regional DR relationship to manage the lifecycle of all PVCs of an application. 4.2. Regional-DR deployment workflow This section provides an overview of the steps required to configure and deploy Regional-DR capabilities using the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation across two distinct OpenShift Container Platform clusters. In addition to two managed clusters, a third OpenShift Container Platform cluster will be required to deploy the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM). To configure your infrastructure, perform the below steps in the order given: Ensure requirements across the three: Hub, Primary and Secondary Openshift Container Platform clusters that are part of the DR solution are met. See Requirements for enabling Regional-DR . Install OpenShift Data Foundation operator and create a storage system on Primary and Secondary managed clusters. See Creating OpenShift Data Foundation cluster on managed clusters . Install the ODF Multicluster Orchestrator on the Hub cluster. See Installing ODF Multicluster Orchestrator on Hub cluster . Configure SSL access between the Hub, Primary and Secondary clusters. See Configuring SSL access across clusters . Create a DRPolicy resource for use with applications requiring DR protection across the Primary and Secondary clusters. See Creating Disaster Recovery Policy on Hub cluster . Note There can be more than a single policy. Testing your disaster recovery solution with: Subscription-based application: Create Subscription-based applications. See Creating sample application . Test failover and relocate operations using the sample subscription-based application between managed clusters. See Subscription-based application failover and relocating subscription-based application . ApplicationSet-based application: Create sample applications. See Creating ApplicationSet-based applications . Test failover and relocate operations using the sample application between managed clusters. See ApplicationSet-based application failover and relocating ApplicationSet-based application . 4.3. Requirements for enabling Regional-DR The prerequisites to installing a disaster recovery solution supported by Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation are as follows: You must have three OpenShift clusters that have network reachability between them: Hub cluster where Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) for Kubernetes operator is installed. Primary managed cluster where OpenShift Data Foundation is running. Secondary managed cluster where OpenShift Data Foundation is running. Note For configuring hub recovery setup, you need a 4th cluster which acts as the passive hub. The primary managed cluster (Site-1) can be co-situated with the active RHACM hub cluster while the passive hub cluster is situated along with the secondary managed cluster (Site-2). Alternatively, the active RHACM hub cluster can be placed in a neutral site (Site-3) that is not impacted by the failures of either of the primary managed cluster at Site-1 or the secondary cluster at Site-2. In this situation, if a passive hub cluster is used it can be placed with the secondary cluster at Site-2. For more information, see Configuring passive hub cluster for hub recovery . Hub recovery is a Technology Preview feature and is subject to Technology Preview support limitations. Ensure that RHACM operator and MultiClusterHub is installed on the Hub cluster. See RHACM installation guide for instructions. After the operator is successfully installed, a popover with a message that the Web console update is available appears on the user interface. Click Refresh web console from this popover for the console changes to reflect. Important Ensure that application traffic routing and redirection are configured appropriately. On the Hub cluster Navigate to All Clusters Infrastructure Clusters . Import or create the Primary managed cluster and the Secondary managed cluster using the RHACM console. Choose the appropriate options for your environment. For instructions, see Creating a cluster and Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster . Connect the private OpenShift cluster and service networks using the RHACM Submariner add-ons. Verify that the two clusters have non-overlapping service and cluster private networks. Otherwise, ensure that the Globalnet is enabled during the Submariner add-ons installation. Run the following command for each of the managed clusters to determine if Globalnet needs to be enabled. The example shown here is for non-overlapping cluster and service networks so Globalnet would not be enabled. Example output for Primary cluster: Example output for Secondary cluster: For more information, see Submariner documentation . 4.4. Creating an OpenShift Data Foundation cluster on managed clusters In order to configure storage replication between the two OpenShift Container Platform clusters, create an OpenShift Data Foundation storage system after you install the OpenShift Data Foundation operator. Note Refer to OpenShift Data Foundation deployment guides and instructions that are specific to your infrastructure (AWS, VMware, BM, Azure, etc.). Procedure Install and configure the latest OpenShift Data Foundation cluster on each of the managed clusters. For information about the OpenShift Data Foundation deployment, refer to your infrastructure specific deployment guides (for example, AWS, VMware, Bare metal, Azure). Note While creating the storage cluster, in the Data Protection step, you must select the Prepare cluster for disaster recovery (Regional-DR only) checkbox. Validate the successful deployment of OpenShift Data Foundation on each managed cluster with the following command: For the Multicloud Gateway (MCG): If the status result is Ready for both queries on the Primary managed cluster and the Secondary managed cluster , then continue with the step. In the OpenShift Web Console, navigate to Installed Operators OpenShift Data Foundation Storage System ocs-storagecluster-storagesystem Resources and verify that the Status of StorageCluster is Ready and has a green tick mark to it. [Optional] If Globalnet was enabled when Submariner was installed, then edit the StorageCluster after the OpenShift Data Foundation install finishes. For Globalnet networks, manually edit the StorageCluster yaml to add the clusterID and set enabled to true . Replace <clustername> with your RHACM imported or newly created managed cluster name. Edit the StorageCluster on both the Primary managed cluster and the Secondary managed cluster. Warning Do not make this change in the StorageCluster unless you enabled Globalnet when Submariner was installed. After the above changes are made, Wait for the OSD pods to restart and OSD services to be created. Wait for all MONS to failover. Ensure that the MONS and OSD services are exported. Ensure that cluster is in a Ready state and cluster health has a green tick indicating Health ok . Verify using step 3. 4.5. Installing OpenShift Data Foundation Multicluster Orchestrator operator OpenShift Data Foundation Multicluster Orchestrator is a controller that is installed from OpenShift Container Platform's OperatorHub on the Hub cluster. Procedure On the Hub cluster , navigate to OperatorHub and use the keyword filter to search for ODF Multicluster Orchestrator . Click ODF Multicluster Orchestrator tile. Keep all default settings and click Install . Ensure that the operator resources are installed in openshift-operators project and available to all namespaces. Note The ODF Multicluster Orchestrator also installs the Openshift DR Hub Operator on the RHACM hub cluster as a dependency. Verify that the operator Pods are in a Running state. The OpenShift DR Hub operator is also installed at the same time in openshift-operators namespace. Example output: 4.6. Configuring SSL access across clusters Configure network (SSL) access between the primary and secondary clusters so that metadata can be stored on the alternate cluster in a Multicloud Gateway (MCG) object bucket using a secure transport protocol and in the Hub cluster for verifying access to the object buckets. Note If all of your OpenShift clusters are deployed using a signed and valid set of certificates for your environment then this section can be skipped. Procedure Extract the ingress certificate for the Primary managed cluster and save the output to primary.crt . Extract the ingress certificate for the Secondary managed cluster and save the output to secondary.crt . Create a new ConfigMap file to hold the remote cluster's certificate bundle with filename cm-clusters-crt.yaml . Note There could be more or less than three certificates for each cluster as shown in this example file. Also, ensure that the certificate contents are correctly indented after you copy and paste from the primary.crt and secondary.crt files that were created before. Create the ConfigMap on the Primary managed cluster , Secondary managed cluster , and the Hub cluster . Example output: Patch default proxy resource on the Primary managed cluster , Secondary managed cluster , and the Hub cluster . Example output: 4.7. Creating Disaster Recovery Policy on Hub cluster Openshift Disaster Recovery Policy (DRPolicy) resource specifies OpenShift Container Platform clusters participating in the disaster recovery solution and the desired replication interval. DRPolicy is a cluster scoped resource that users can apply to applications that require Disaster Recovery solution. The ODF MultiCluster Orchestrator Operator facilitates the creation of each DRPolicy and the corresponding DRClusters through the Multicluster Web console . Prerequisites Ensure that there is a minimum set of two managed clusters. Procedure On the OpenShift console , navigate to All Clusters Data Services Data policies . Click Create DRPolicy . Enter Policy name . Ensure that each DRPolicy has a unique name (for example: ocp4bos1-ocp4bos2-5m ). Select two clusters from the list of managed clusters to which this new policy will be associated with. Note If you get an error message "OSDs not migrated" after selecting the clusters, then follow the instructions from knowledgebase article on Migration of existing OSD to the optimized OSD in OpenShift Data Foundation for Regional-DR cluster before proceeding with the step. Replication policy is automatically set to Asynchronous (async) based on the OpenShift clusters selected and a Sync schedule option will become available. Set Sync schedule . Important For every desired replication interval a new DRPolicy must be created with a unique name (such as: ocp4bos1-ocp4bos2-10m ). The same clusters can be selected but the Sync schedule can be configured with a different replication interval in minutes/hours/days. The minimum is one minute. Click Create . Verify that the DRPolicy is created successfully. Run this command on the Hub cluster for each of the DRPolicy resources created, where <drpolicy_name> is replaced with your unique name. Example output: When a DRPolicy is created, along with it, two DRCluster resources are also created. It could take up to 10 minutes for all three resources to be validated and for the status to show as Succeeded . Note Editing of SchedulingInterval , ReplicationClassSelector , VolumeSnapshotClassSelector and DRClusters field values are not supported in the DRPolicy. Verify the object bucket access from the Hub cluster to both the Primary managed cluster and the Secondary managed cluster . Get the names of the DRClusters on the Hub cluster. Example output: Check S3 access to each bucket created on each managed cluster. Use the DRCluster validation command, where <drcluster_name> is replaced with your unique name. Note Editing of Region and S3ProfileName field values are non supported in DRClusters. Example output: Note Make sure to run commands for both DRClusters on the Hub cluster . Verify that the OpenShift DR Cluster operator installation was successful on the Primary managed cluster and the Secondary managed cluster . Example output: You can also verify that OpenShift DR Cluster Operator is installed successfully on the OperatorHub of each managed cluster. Note On the initial run, VolSync operator is installed automatically. VolSync is used to set up volume replication between two clusters to protect CephFs-based PVCs. The replication feature is enabled by default. Verify that the status of the OpenShift Data Foundation mirroring daemon health on the Primary managed cluster and the Secondary managed cluster . Example output: Caution It could take up to 10 minutes for the daemon_health and health to go from Warning to OK . If the status does not become OK eventually, then use the RHACM console to verify that the Submariner connection between managed clusters is still in a healthy state. Do not proceed until all values are OK . 4.8. Create sample application for testing disaster recovery solution OpenShift Data Foundation disaster recovery (DR) solution supports disaster recovery for Subscription-based and ApplicationSet-based applications that are managed by RHACM. For more details, see Subscriptions and ApplicationSet documentation. The following sections detail how to create an application and apply a DRPolicy to an application. Subscription-based applications OpenShift users that do not have cluster-admin permissions, see the knowledge article on how to assign necessary permissions to an application user for executing disaster recovery actions. ApplicationSet-based applications OpenShift users that do not have cluster-admin permissions cannot create ApplicationSet-based applications. 4.8.1. Subscription-based applications 4.8.1.1. Creating a sample Subscription-based application In order to test failover from the Primary managed cluster to the Secondary managed cluster and relocate , we need a sample application. Prerequisites When creating an application for general consumption, ensure that the application is deployed to ONLY one cluster. Use the sample application called busybox as an example. Ensure all external routes of the application are configured using either Global Traffic Manager (GTM) or Global Server Load Balancing (GLSB) service for traffic redirection when the application fails over or is relocated. As a best practice, group Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) subscriptions that belong together, refer to a single Placement Rule to DR protect them as a group. Further create them as a single application for a logical grouping of the subscriptions for future DR actions like failover and relocate. Note If unrelated subscriptions refer to the same Placement Rule for placement actions, they are also DR protected as the DR workflow controls all subscriptions that references the Placement Rule. Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to Applications and click Create application . Select type as Subscription . Enter your application Name (for example, busybox ) and Namespace (for example, busybox-sample ). In the Repository location for resources section, select Repository type Git . Enter the Git repository URL for the sample application, the github Branch and Path where the resources busybox Pod and PVC will be created. Use the sample application repository as https://github.com/red-hat-storage/ocm-ramen-samples . Select Branch as release-4.15 . Choose one of the following Path : busybox-odr to use RBD Regional-DR. busybox-odr-cephfs to use CephFS Regional-DR. Scroll down in the form until you see Deploy application resources on clusters with all specified labels . Select the global Cluster sets or the one that includes the correct managed clusters for your environment. Add a label <name> with its value set to the managed cluster name. Click Create which is at the top right hand corner. On the follow-on screen go to the Topology tab. You should see that there are all Green checkmarks on the application topology. Note To get more information, click on any of the topology elements and a window will appear on the right of the topology view. Validating the sample application deployment. Now that the busybox application has been deployed to your preferred Cluster, the deployment can be validated. Log in to your managed cluster where busybox was deployed by RHACM. Example output: 4.8.1.2. Apply Data policy to sample application Prerequisites Ensure that both managed clusters referenced in the Data policy are reachable. If not, the application will not be protected for disaster recovery until both clusters are online. Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to All Clusters Applications . Click the Actions menu at the end of application to view the list of available actions. Click Manage data policy Assign data policy . Select Policy and click . Select an Application resource and then use PVC label selector to select PVC label for the selected application resource. Note You can select more than one PVC label for the selected application resources. You can also use the Add application resource option to add multiple resources. After adding all the application resources, click . Review the Policy configuration details and click Assign . The newly assigned Data policy is displayed on the Manage data policy modal list view. Verify that you can view the assigned policy details on the Applications page. On the Applications page, navigate to the Data policy column and click the policy link to expand the view. Verify that you can see the number of policies assigned along with failover and relocate status. Click View more details to view the status of ongoing activities with the policy in use with the application. Optional: Verify RADOS block device (RBD) volumereplication and volumereplicationgroup on the primary cluster. Example output: Example output: Optional: Verify CephFS volsync replication source has been set up successfully in the primary cluster and VolSync ReplicationDestination has been set up in the failover cluster. Example output: Example output: 4.8.2. ApplicationSet-based applications 4.8.2.1. Creating ApplicationSet-based applications Prerequisite Ensure that the Red Hat OpenShift GitOps operator is installed on the Hub cluster. For instructions, see RHACM documentation . Ensure that both Primary and Secondary managed clusters are registered to GitOps. For registration instructions, see Registering managed clusters to GitOps . Then check if the Placement used by GitOpsCluster resource to register both managed clusters, has the tolerations to deal with cluster unavailability. You can verify if the following tolerations are added to the Placement using the command oc get placement <placement-name> -n openshift-gitops -o yaml . In case the tolerations are not added, see Configuring application placement tolerations for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management and OpenShift GitOps . Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to All Clusters Applications and click Create application . Choose application type as Argo CD ApplicationSet - Push model In General step 1, enter your Application set name . Select Argo server openshift-gitops and Requeue time as 180 seconds. Click . In the Repository location for resources section, select Repository type Git . Enter the Git repository URL for the sample application, the github Branch and Path where the resources busybox Pod and PVC will be created. Use the sample application repository as https://github.com/red-hat-storage/ocm-ramen-samples Select Revision as release-4.15 Choose one of the following Path: busybox-odr to use RBD Regional-DR. busybox-odr-cephfs to use CephFS Regional-DR. Enter Remote namespace value. (example, busybox-sample) and click . Select Sync policy settings and click . You can choose one or more options. Add a label <name> with its value set to the managed cluster name. Click . Review the setting details and click Submit . 4.8.2.2. Apply Data policy to sample ApplicationSet-based application Prerequisites Ensure that both managed clusters referenced in the Data policy are reachable. If not, the application will not be protected for disaster recovery until both clusters are online. Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to All Clusters Applications . Click the Actions menu at the end of application to view the list of available actions. Click Manage data policy Assign data policy . Select Policy and click . Select an Application resource and then use PVC label selector to select PVC label for the selected application resource. Note You can select more than one PVC label for the selected application resources. After adding all the application resources, click . Review the Policy configuration details and click Assign . The newly assigned Data policy is displayed on the Manage data policy modal list view. Verify that you can view the assigned policy details on the Applications page. On the Applications page, navigate to the Data policy column and click the policy link to expand the view. Verify that you can see the number of policies assigned along with failover and relocate status. Optional: Verify Rados block device (RBD) volumereplication and volumereplicationgroup on the primary cluster. Example output: Example output: Optional: Verify CephFS volsync replication source has been setup successfully in the primary cluster and VolSync ReplicationDestination has been setup in the failover cluster. Example output: Example output: 4.8.3. Deleting sample application This section provides instructions for deleting the sample application busybox using the RHACM console. Important When deleting a DR protected application, access to both clusters that belong to the DRPolicy is required. This is to ensure that all protected API resources and resources in the respective S3 stores are cleaned up as part of removing the DR protection. If access to one of the clusters is not healthy, deleting the DRPlacementControl resource for the application, on the hub, would remain in the Deleting state. Prerequisites These instructions to delete the sample application should not be executed until the failover and relocate testing is completed and the application is ready to be removed from RHACM and the managed clusters. Procedure On the RHACM console, navigate to Applications . Search for the sample application to be deleted (for example, busybox ). Click the Action Menu (...) to the application you want to delete. Click Delete application . When the Delete application is selected a new screen will appear asking if the application related resources should also be deleted. Select Remove application related resources checkbox to delete the Subscription and PlacementRule. Click Delete . This will delete the busybox application on the Primary managed cluster (or whatever cluster the application was running on). In addition to the resources deleted using the RHACM console, delete the DRPlacementControl if it is not auto-deleted after deleting the busybox application. Log in to the OpenShift Web console for the Hub cluster and navigate to Installed Operators for the project busybox-sample . For ApplicationSet applications, select the project as openshift-gitops . Click OpenShift DR Hub Operator and then click the DRPlacementControl tab. Click the Action Menu (...) to the busybox application DRPlacementControl that you want to delete. Click Delete DRPlacementControl . Click Delete . Note This process can be used to delete any application with a DRPlacementControl resource. 4.9. Subscription-based application failover between managed clusters Failover is a process that transitions an application from a primary cluster to a secondary cluster in the event of a primary cluster failure. While failover provides the ability for the application to run on the secondary cluster with minimal interruption, making an uninformed failover decision can have adverse consequences, such as complete data loss in the event of unnoticed replication failure from primary to secondary cluster. If a significant amount of time has gone by since the last successful replication, it's best to wait until the failed primary is recovered. LastGroupSyncTime is a critical metric that reflects the time since the last successful replication occurred for all PVCs associated with an application. In essence, it measures the synchronization health between the primary and secondary clusters. So, prior to initiating a failover from one cluster to another, check for this metric and only initiate the failover if the LastGroupSyncTime is within a reasonable time in the past. Note During the course of failover the Ceph-RBD mirror deployment on the failover cluster is scaled down to ensure a clean failover for volumes that are backed by Ceph-RBD as the storage provisioner. Prerequisites If your setup has active and passive RHACM hub clusters, see Hub recovery using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management . When the primary cluster is in a state other than Ready , check the actual status of the cluster as it might take some time to update. Navigate to the RHACM console Infrastructure Clusters Cluster list tab. Check the status of both the managed clusters individually before performing failover operation. However, failover operation can still be performed when the cluster you are failing over to is in a Ready state. Run the following command on the Hub Cluster to check if lastGroupSyncTime is within an acceptable data loss window, when compared to current time. Example output: Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to Applications . Click the Actions menu at the end of application row to view the list of available actions. Click Failover application . After the Failover application modal is shown, select policy and target cluster to which the associated application will failover in case of a disaster. Click the Select subscription group dropdown to verify the default selection or modify this setting. By default, the subscription group that replicates for the application resources is selected. Check the status of the Failover readiness . If the status is Ready with a green tick, it indicates that the target cluster is ready for failover to start. Proceed to step 7. If the status is Unknown or Not ready , then wait until the status changes to Ready . Click Initiate . The busybox application is now failing over to the Secondary-managed cluster . Close the modal window and track the status using the Data policy column on the Applications page. Verify that the activity status shows as FailedOver for the application. Navigate to the Applications Overview tab. In the Data policy column, click the policy link for the application you applied the policy to. On the Data policy popover, click the View more details link. Verify that you can see one or more policy names and the ongoing activities (Last sync time and Activity status) associated with the policy in use with the application. 4.10. ApplicationSet-based application failover between managed clusters Failover is a process that transitions an application from a primary cluster to a secondary cluster in the event of a primary cluster failure. While failover provides the ability for the application to run on the secondary cluster with minimal interruption, making an uninformed failover decision can have adverse consequences, such as complete data loss in the event of unnoticed replication failure from primary to secondary cluster. If a significant amount of time has gone by since the last successful replication, it's best to wait until the failed primary is recovered. LastGroupSyncTime is a critical metric that reflects the time since the last successful replication occurred for all PVCs associated with an application. In essence, it measures the synchronization health between the primary and secondary clusters. So, prior to initiating a failover from one cluster to another, check for this metric and only initiate the failover if the LastGroupSyncTime is within a reasonable time in the past. Note During the course of failover the Ceph-RBD mirror deployment on the failover cluster is scaled down to ensure a clean failover for volumes that are backed by Ceph-RBD as the storage provisioner. Prerequisites If your setup has active and passive RHACM hub clusters, see Hub recovery using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management . When the primary cluster is in a state other than Ready , check the actual status of the cluster as it might take some time to update. Navigate to the RHACM console Infrastructure Clusters Cluster list tab. Check the status of both the managed clusters individually before performing failover operation. However, failover operation can still be performed when the cluster you are failing over to is in a Ready state. Run the following command on the Hub Cluster to check if lastGroupSyncTime is within an acceptable data loss window, when compared to current time. Example output: Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to Applications . Click the Actions menu at the end of application row to view the list of available actions. Click Failover application . When the Failover application modal is shown, verify the details presented are correct and check the status of the Failover readiness . If the status is Ready with a green tick, it indicates that the target cluster is ready for failover to start. Click Initiate . The busybox resources are now created on the target cluster. Close the modal window and track the status using the Data policy column on the Applications page. Verify that the activity status shows as FailedOver for the application. Navigate to the Applications Overview tab. In the Data policy column, click the policy link for the application you applied the policy to. On the Data policy popover, verify that you can see one or more policy names and the ongoing activities associated with the policy in use with the application. 4.11. Relocating Subscription-based application between managed clusters Relocate an application to its preferred location when all managed clusters are available. Prerequisite If your setup has active and passive RHACM hub clusters, see Hub recovery using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management . When the primary cluster is in a state other than Ready , check the actual status of the cluster as it might take some time to update. Relocate can only be performed when both primary and preferred clusters are up and running. Navigate to RHACM console Infrastructure Clusters Cluster list tab. Check the status of both the managed clusters individually before performing relocate operation. Perform relocate when lastGroupSyncTime is within the replication interval (for example, 5 minutes) when compared to current time. This is recommended to minimize the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for any single application. Run this command on the Hub Cluster: Example output: Compare the output time (UTC) to current time to validate that all lastGroupSyncTime values are within their application replication interval. If not, wait to Relocate until this is true for all lastGroupSyncTime values. Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to Applications . Click the Actions menu at the end of application row to view the list of available actions. Click Relocate application . When the Relocate application modal is shown, select policy and target cluster to which the associated application will relocate to in case of a disaster. By default, the subscription group that will deploy the application resources is selected. Click the Select subscription group dropdown to verify the default selection or modify this setting. Check the status of the Relocation readiness . If the status is Ready with a green tick, it indicates that the target cluster is ready for relocation to start. Proceed to step 7. If the status is Unknown or Not ready , then wait until the status changes to Ready . Click Initiate . The busybox resources are now created on the target cluster. Close the modal window and track the status using the Data policy column on the Applications page. Verify that the activity status shows as Relocated for the application. Navigate to the Applications Overview tab. In the Data policy column, click the policy link for the application you applied the policy to. On the Data policy popover, click the View more details link. Verify that you can see one or more policy names and the ongoing activities (Last sync time and Activity status) associated with the policy in use with the application. 4.12. Relocating an ApplicationSet-based application between managed clusters Relocate an application to its preferred location when all managed clusters are available. Prerequisite If your setup has active and passive RHACM hub clusters, see Hub recovery using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management . When the primary cluster is in a state other than Ready , check the actual status of the cluster as it might take some time to update. Relocate can only be performed when both primary and preferred clusters are up and running. Navigate to RHACM console Infrastructure Clusters Cluster list tab. Check the status of both the managed clusters individually before performing relocate operation. Perform relocate when lastGroupSyncTime is within the replication interval (for example, 5 minutes) when compared to current time. This is recommended to minimize the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for any single application. Run this command on the Hub Cluster: Example output: Compare the output time (UTC) to current time to validate that all lastGroupSyncTime values are within their application replication interval. If not, wait to Relocate until this is true for all lastGroupSyncTime values. Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to Applications . Click the Actions menu at the end of application row to view the list of available actions. Click Relocate application . When the Relocate application modal is shown, select policy and target cluster to which the associated application will relocate to in case of a disaster. Click Initiate . The busybox resources are now created on the target cluster. Close the modal window and track the status using the Data policy column on the Applications page. Verify that the activity status shows as Relocated for the application. Navigate to the Applications Overview tab. In the Data policy column, click the policy link for the application you applied the policy to. On the Data policy popover, verify that you can see one or more policy names and the relocation status associated with the policy in use with the application. 4.13. Viewing Recovery Point Objective values for disaster recovery enabled applications Recovery Point Objective (RPO) value is the most recent sync time of persistent data from the cluster where the application is currently active to its peer. This sync time helps determine duration of data lost during failover. Note This RPO value is applicable only for Regional-DR during failover. Relocation ensures there is no data loss during the operation, as all peer clusters are available. You can view the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) value of all the protected volumes for their workload on the Hub cluster. Procedure On the Hub cluster, navigate to Applications Overview tab. In the Data policy column, click the policy link for the application you applied the policy to. A Data Policies modal page appears with the number of disaster recovery policies applied to each application along with failover and relocation status. On the Data Policies modal page, click the View more details link. A detailed Data Policies modal page is displayed that shows the policy names and the ongoing activities (Last sync, Activity status) associated with the policy that is applied to the application. The Last sync time reported in the modal page, represents the most recent sync time of all volumes that are DR protected for the application. 4.14. Hub recovery using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management [Technology preview] When your setup has active and passive Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) hub clusters, and in case where the active hub is down, you can use the passive hub to failover or relocate the disaster recovery protected workloads. Important Hub recovery is a Technology Preview feature and is subject to Technology Preview support limitations. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process. For more information, see Technology Preview Features Support Scope . 4.14.1. Configuring passive hub cluster To perform hub recovery in case the active hub is down or unreachable, follow the procedure in this section to configure the passive hub cluster and then failover or relocate the disaster recovery protected workloads. Procedure Ensure that RHACM operator and MultiClusterHub is installed on the passive hub cluster. See RHACM installation guide for instructions. After the operator is successfully installed, a popover with a message that the Web console update is available appears on the user interface. Click Refresh web console from this popover for the console changes to reflect. Before hub recovery, configure backup and restore. See Backup and restore topics of RHACM Business continuity guide. Install the multicluster orchestrator (MCO) operator along with Red Hat OpenShift GitOps operator on the passive RHACM hub prior to the restore. For instructions to restore your RHACM hub, see Installing OpenShift Data Foundation Multicluster Orchestrator operator . Ensure that .spec.cleanupBeforeRestore is set to None for the Restore.cluster.open-cluster-management.io resource. For details, see Restoring passive resources while checking for backups chapter of RHACM documentation. If SSL access across clusters was configured manually during setup, then re-configure SSL access across clusters. For instructions, see Configuring SSL access across clusters chapter. On the passive hub, add label to openshift-operators namespace to enable basic monitoring of VolumeSyncronizationDelay alert using this command. For alert details, see Disaster recovery alerts chapter. 4.14.2. Switching to passive hub cluster Use this procedure when active hub is down or unreachable. Procedure Restore the backups on the passive hub cluster. For information, see Restoring a hub cluster from backup. Important Recovering a failed hub to its passive instance will only restore applications and their DR protected state to its last scheduled backup. Any application that was DR protected after the last scheduled backup would need to be protected again on the new hub. Submariner is automatically installed once the managed clusters are imported on the passive hub. Verify that the Primary and Seconday managed clusters are successfully imported into the RHACM console and they are accessible. If any of the managed clusters are down or unreachable then they will not be successfully imported. Wait until DRPolicy validation succeeds. Verify that the DRPolicy is created successfully. Run this command on the Hub cluster for each of the DRPolicy resources created, where <drpolicy_name> is replaced with a unique name. Example output: Refresh the RHACM console to make the DR monitoring dashboard tab accessible if it was enabled on the Active hub cluster. If only the active hub cluster is down, restore the hub by performing hub recovery, and restoring the backups on the passive hub. If the managed clusters are still accessible, no further action is required. If the primary managed cluster is down, along with the active hub cluster, you need to fail over the workloads from the primary managed cluster to the secondary managed cluster. For failover instructions, based on your workload type, see Subscription-based applications or ApplicationSet-based applications . Verify that the failover is successful. When the Primary managed cluster is down, then the PROGRESSION status for the workload would be in Cleaning Up phase until the down managed cluster is back online and successfully imported into the RHACM console. On the passive hub cluster, run the following command to check the PROGRESSION status. Example output:

Commands:
oc get networks.config.openshift.io cluster -o json | jq .spec
{ "clusterNetwork": [ { "cidr": "10.5.0.0/16", "hostPrefix": 23 } ], "externalIP": { "policy": {} }, "networkType": "OVNKubernetes", "serviceNetwork": [ "10.15.0.0/16" ] }
{ "clusterNetwork": [ { "cidr": "10.6.0.0/16", "hostPrefix": 23 } ], "externalIP": { "policy": {} }, "networkType": "OVNKubernetes", "serviceNetwork": [ "10.16.0.0/16" ] }
oc get storagecluster -n openshift-storage ocs-storagecluster -o jsonpath='{.status.phase}{"\n"}'
oc get noobaa -n openshift-storage noobaa -o jsonpath='{.status.phase}{"\n"}'
oc edit storagecluster -o yaml -n openshift-storage
spec: network: multiClusterService: clusterID: <clustername> enabled: true
oc get serviceexport -n openshift-storage
NAME AGE rook-ceph-mon-d 4d14h rook-ceph-mon-e 4d14h rook-ceph-mon-f 4d14h rook-ceph-osd-0 4d14h rook-ceph-osd-1 4d14h rook-ceph-osd-2 4d14h
oc get pods -n openshift-operators
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE odf-multicluster-console-6845b795b9-blxrn 1/1 Running 0 4d20h odfmo-controller-manager-f9d9dfb59-jbrsd 1/1 Running 0 4d20h ramen-hub-operator-6fb887f885-fss4w 2/2 Running 0 4d20h
oc get cm default-ingress-cert -n openshift-config-managed -o jsonpath="{['data']['ca-bundle\.crt']}" > primary.crt
oc get cm default-ingress-cert -n openshift-config-managed -o jsonpath="{['data']['ca-bundle\.crt']}" > secondary.crt
apiVersion: v1 data: ca-bundle.crt: | -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <copy contents of cert1 from primary.crt here> -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <copy contents of cert2 from primary.crt here> -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <copy contents of cert3 primary.crt here> -----END CERTIFICATE---- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <copy contents of cert1 from secondary.crt here> -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <copy contents of cert2 from secondary.crt here> -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <copy contents of cert3 from secondary.crt here> -----END CERTIFICATE----- kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: user-ca-bundle namespace: openshift-config
oc create -f cm-clusters-crt.yaml
configmap/user-ca-bundle created
oc patch proxy cluster --type=merge --patch='{"spec":{"trustedCA":{"name":"user-ca-bundle"}}}'
proxy.config.openshift.io/cluster patched
oc get drpolicy <drpolicy_name> -o jsonpath='{.status.conditions[].reason}{"\n"}'
Succeeded
oc get drclusters
NAME AGE ocp4bos1 4m42s ocp4bos2 4m42s
oc get drcluster <drcluster_name> -o jsonpath='{.status.conditions[2].reason}{"\n"}'
Succeeded
oc get csv,pod -n openshift-dr-system
NAME DISPLAY VERSION REPLACES PHASE clusterserviceversion.operators.coreos.com/odr-cluster-operator.v4.15.0 Openshift DR Cluster Operator 4.15.0 Succeeded clusterserviceversion.operators.coreos.com/volsync-product.v0.8.0 VolSync 0.8.0 Succeeded NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE pod/ramen-dr-cluster-operator-6467cf5d4c-cc8kz 2/2 Running 0 3d12h
oc get cephblockpool ocs-storagecluster-cephblockpool -n openshift-storage -o jsonpath='{.status.mirroringStatus.summary}{"\n"}'
{"daemon_health":"OK","health":"OK","image_health":"OK","states":{}}
oc get pods,pvc -n busybox-sample
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE pod/busybox-67bf494b9-zl5tr 1/1 Running 0 77s NAME STATUS VOLUME CAPACITY ACCESS MODES STORAGECLASS AGE persistentvolumeclaim/busybox-pvc Bound pvc-c732e5fe-daaf-4c4d-99dd-462e04c18412 5Gi RWO ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd 77s
oc get volumereplications.replication.storage.openshift.io -A
NAME AGE VOLUMEREPLICATIONCLASS PVCNAME DESIREDSTATE CURRENTSTATE busybox-pvc 2d16h rbd-volumereplicationclass-1625360775 busybox-pvc primary Primary
oc get volumereplicationgroups.ramendr.openshift.io -A
NAME DESIREDSTATE CURRENTSTATE busybox-drpc primary Primary
oc get replicationsource -n busybox-sample
NAME SOURCE LAST SYNC DURATION NEXT SYNC busybox-pvc busybox-pvc 2022-12-20T08:46:07Z 1m7.794661104s 2022-12-20T08:50:00Z
oc get replicationdestination -n busybox-sample
NAME LAST SYNC DURATION NEXT SYNC busybox-pvc 2022-12-20T08:46:32Z 4m39.52261108s
tolerations: - key: cluster.open-cluster-management.io/unreachable operator: Exists - key: cluster.open-cluster-management.io/unavailable operator: Exists
oc get volumereplications.replication.storage.openshift.io -A
NAME AGE VOLUMEREPLICATIONCLASS PVCNAME DESIREDSTATE CURRENTSTATE busybox-pvc 2d16h rbd-volumereplicationclass-1625360775 busybox-pvc primary Primary
oc get volumereplicationgroups.ramendr.openshift.io -A
NAME DESIREDSTATE CURRENTSTATE busybox-drpc primary Primary
oc get replicationsource -n busybox-sample
NAME SOURCE LAST SYNC DURATION NEXT SYNC busybox-pvc busybox-pvc 2022-12-20T08:46:07Z 1m7.794661104s 2022-12-20T08:50:00Z
oc get replicationdestination -n busybox-sample
NAME LAST SYNC DURATION NEXT SYNC busybox-pvc 2022-12-20T08:46:32Z 4m39.52261108s
oc get drpc -o yaml -A | grep lastGroupSyncTime
[...] lastGroupSyncTime: "2023-07-10T12:40:10Z"
oc get drpc -o yaml -A | grep lastGroupSyncTime
[...] lastGroupSyncTime: "2023-07-10T12:40:10Z"
oc get drpc -o yaml -A | grep lastGroupSyncTime
[...] lastGroupSyncTime: "2023-07-10T12:40:10Z"
oc get drpc -o yaml -A | grep lastGroupSyncTime
[...] lastGroupSyncTime: "2023-07-10T12:40:10Z"
oc label namespace openshift-operators openshift.io/cluster-monitoring='true'
oc get drpolicy <drpolicy_name> -o jsonpath='{.status.conditions[].reason}{"\n"}'
Succeeded
oc get drpc -o wide -A
NAMESPACE NAME AGE PREFERREDCLUSTER FAILOVERCLUSTER DESIREDSTATE CURRENTSTATE PROGRESSION START TIME DURATION PEER READY [...] busybox cephfs-busybox-placement-1-drpc 103m cluster-1 cluster-2 Failover FailedOver Cleaning Up 2024-04-15T09:12:23Z False busybox cephfs-busybox-placement-1-drpc 102m cluster-1 Deployed Completed 2024-04-15T07:40:09Z 37.200569819s True [...]