The VMware Blockchain Orchestrator deployment descriptor file includes definitions of available properties to clone your deployment environment.

Clone Replica and Client Node Parameters

To troubleshoot a node failure without introducing any errors in the production environment, you can clone a deployment environment. Within the cloned environment, you can perform the following operations:

  • Test whether the fix is working correctly before applying the fix to your production environment.

  • Deploy the same version of VMware Blockchain with a different topology.

Parameter

Description

populatedReplicas

Add the snapshot ID for the Replica nodes to clone.

Sample populatedReplicas configuration.

"populatedReplicas": [
  {
    "zoneName": "castor-zone-A",
    "keyName": "aws-key-zone-A",
    "snapshotId": "snap-04793f30cc9108473"
  },             
  ...

This parameter is optional.

populatedClients

Add the snapshot ID for the Client nodes to clone.

You can obtain the groupName information from the previously provisioned deployment output.

Sample populatedClients configuration.

"populatedClients": [
  {
    "zoneName": "castor-zone-A",
    "groupName": "g1",
    "keyName": "aws-key-zone-A",
    "snapshotId": "snap-04793f30cc9108474"
  },              
  ...

This parameter is optional.