If a Local Manager is lost, you can recover networking configurations from it using the auto-detected Network Recovery option in the Global Manager.

You must have at least one stretched tier-0 or tier-1 gateway set up designating a Location Manager as primary. The loss of this primary Location Manager for the tier-0 or tier-1 gateway triggers the option of network recovery in the Global Manager.

  • The Global Manager detects the loss of connection and prompts you to perform Network Recovery.
  • In the first step of recovery, you recover the tier-0 gateway. You can change the preferred primary location if you want it to be different from the one you set in the fallback preference.
  • In the second step, you select a preferred primary location for tier-1 gateways that have a subset of the span of the locations covered by the tier-0 network. The preferred primary location for such tier-1 gateways would be different from tier-0 gateways and you must either accept the fallback preference established by the tier-0 gateway, or elect not to move the gateway.
  • In the final step, you can view the list of networking constructs that cannot be recovered because they do not have a secondary location configured.
Note:

If you have a tier-0 and tier-1 gateway set up using a Location Manager as primary, but the tier-0 and tier-1 gateway do not have any services attached to them, for example, tier-0 and tier-1 without NAT and firewall, then the data plane traffic still works after the loss of the primary Location Manager. For tier-0/tier-1 configuration without service, Network Recovery is not mandatory for the recovery of data plane, even though the Network Recovery option appears in the Global Manager.

Procedure

  1. From your browser, log in with admin privileges to the active Global Manager at https://<global-manager-ip-address>.
  2. Select System > Location Manager.
  3. A banner appears on this page noting the location that is down. Click Network Recovery on the banner and start the workflow for Location Disaster Recovery in the following steps.
  4. Tier-0 Gateways: For each tier-0 gateway that has the failed location set as primary, you have the option to select a new primary location. This new primary location can be different from the fallback preference you elected when creating the tier-0 gateway. You can also elect to not move the tier-0 gateway. Click Apply Configuration for each tier-0 gateway after selecting a new primary location or retaining the priority set earlier.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Tier-1 A/S gateways are listed for recovery only if their span differs from the span of the tier-0 gateway. If tier-1 A/S gateways follow the same span as the tier-0 gateway, the same locations are selected to be primary as for tier-0 gateways. For a different span, you can either select a different location as primary or elect to not move the tier-1 gateway at all.
  7. After you make your selections for each tier-1 gateway, click Accept and Next to proceed.
  8. Under Single Location Entities you can see a list of tier-0 and tier-1 gateways that cannot be moved to a new primary location because they exist only in the failed location. Click Next to proceed.

Results

The stretched tier-0 and tier-1 gateways are moved to the new location which that you designated as primary.

For more details, go to the Broadcom Communities discussion forum to review the NSX-T Data Center Multi-Location Design Guide, section 4.4.2, Data Plane Recovery.