Recovery of Kyvos cluster from Kyvos Manager

To recover your Kyvos Cloud, log in to Kyvos Manager and perform Disaster Recovery.

✅ Enterprise: AWS, Azure, GCP, and On-Premises

Kyvos Manager provides a dedicated interface for disaster recovery of all cloud clusters. The dedicated wizard provides a guided flow for performing disaster recovery across all cloud clusters. 

Prerequisites

Note

  • Keep the following things handy during disaster recovery, depending on what is affected in your cluster.

    • New certificates are applicable if existing settings (domain/subdomain) are changed after recovery.

    • Get the new license by sending the license required file in case of production.

Disaster recovery through the guided flow on Kyvos Manager

Important

The disaster recovery options for each cloud may vary depending on the primary deployment.

  1. Log on to the Kyvos Manager portal.

  2. When you log on to the restored Kyvos Manager, you will be automatically redirected to the Disaster Recovery page, showing the state of current nodes and steps to restore the cluster. 

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  3. Click the Uninstall button corresponding to Step 1: Configure Kyvos Manager Server Details.

  4. Click the Uninstall button corresponding to Step 2: Uninstall Zookeeper.

Note

The option to Uninstall Zookeeper is displayed only when multiple Analytical Servers are installed on the cluster.

  1. On the displayed confirmation dialog box, provide your Kyvos Manager password, and click the Uninstall button.

    A new browser tab is opened, showing uninstall Zookeeper operation details and status. You may switch back to the Disaster Recovery browser tab once the operation is completed.

  2. Click the Delete button corresponding to Step 3: Delete Offline Nodes.

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  3. From the Delete Offline Nodes dialog box, select the nodes you want to delete and provide your Kyvos Manager Password.
    Note that you will see only the Offline nodes in this list.

  4. Click the Delete button.

Note

Once deleted, nodes cannot be retrieved.
You may switch back to the Disaster Recovery browser tab.
Once the operation is completed, you will see the status shown in the following figure.

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  1. Click the Uninstall button corresponding to Step 4: Change Node Authentication.

  2. Click the Add button corresponding to Step 5: Add Nodes. On the Add Nodes dialog box, click the Next button.
    Ensure that you can add multiple new nodes as per your license.

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  3. Once done, provide your Kyvos Manager Password, and click the Add button.
    A new browser tab is opened, showing add node operation details and status. You may switch back to the Disaster Recovery browser tab.
    Once the operation is completed, you will see the status shown in the following figure. At this point, you will be able to perform the next step for switching to replica.

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  4. Click the Switch button corresponding to Step 6: Switch to Replica.

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  5. Click the Switch button corresponding to Step 7: Switch Repository. You will be redirected to the Switch Repository page.
    Refer to the Manage Kyvos Repository section to learn more.

  6. Click the Configure button corresponding to Step 8: Configure Compute Cluster.

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  7. Click the Configure button corresponding to Step 9: Configure Cloud Functions. Fill in the required details on the Cloud Functions dialog box and click Save.

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  8. Click the Configure button corresponding to Step 10: Configure Cloud Functions.

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  9. Click the Install button corresponding to Step 11: Install Zookeeper.

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  10. Provide your Kyvos Manager Password on the confirmation box and click the Install button.

    A new browser tab is opened, showing install Zookeeper operation details and status. You may switch back to the Disaster Recovery browser tab once the operation is completed.

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Important

When Kyvos Manager HA is enabled and Managed zookeeper is used then after completing the Disaster Recovery activity, stop and start Kyvos Manager from terminal (not from Kyvos Manager UI) irrespective of whether TLS is enabled or not. Prior to the Kyvos 2024.1 release, Kyvos Manager restart is required only when TLS is enabled.

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