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.
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
- From your browser, log in with admin privileges to the active Global Manager at https://<global-manager-ip-address>.
- Select .
- 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.
- 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.
- Click Next.
- Tier-1 gateways are listed for recovery only if their span differs from the span of the tier-0 gateway. If tier-1 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.
- After you make your selections for each tier-1 gateway, click Accept and Next to proceed.
- 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.
See section 4.4.2 titled Data Plane Recovery in the NSX-T Data Center Multi-location Design Guide for more details.