Enabling and disabling applications for Metro-DR

You must first register your applications for disaster recovery.

Before you begin

The prerequisite for this step is that the Metro-DR setup must be complete.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Applications page.
    Alternatively, you can enroll applications from the Replicated applications page:
  2. Click the ellipsis overflow menu of your application record and click Manage disaster recovery.
  3. In the Manage disaster recovery window, select Metro tile and click Save.

    Disaster recovery is enabled for the selected application. After you register your applications, you can see a table with a list of applications that are protected by this disaster recovery in the Disaster recovery page.

  4. To validate, go to the Disaster recovery > Replicated applications page.
  5. Check whether the enrolled application is available in the Replicated applications page.
    If you no longer need disaster recovery for an application, then do the following steps to disable from the Replicated applications page or the Applications page:
    1. Scale down the applications before you remove the enrollment.
      Otherwise, it leads to inconsistent Ramen CR and Replication error.
    2. Search for the application and click the ellipsis overflow menu of of the record and click Manage disaster recovery.
    3. In the Manage disaster recovery window, select No disaster recovery tile.
    4. Click Save.
    5. Scale up the applications.