This article describes, how to configure High Availability for Versa Director.


Please Note: In case of any Firewall between 2 Versa Director nodes following ports need to opened

22, 4566, 4570, 5432 


Versa Director supports Active-Standby High Availability between its nodes.

 

 

Prerequisite

  1. Two nodes of Versa Director- Versa Director1 ( vdirector1) and Versa Director2 (vdirector2) are up and running.
  2. Both the Versa Directors are running on the same software version with same package id as shown below for an example.

 

 

Configuration

  1. Login to the Versa Director1 GUI using <VD IP> as shown below
  2. Navigate to Administration > System > High Availability, click on the edit button and enter the Active IP Address, Standby IP Address and Designated Active IP Address, then click OK as shown in the screenshot.

 

  1. Check in the task bar the auto configuration of HA.

 

  1. Once successful, the HA will be enabled and can be verified via below screen:

 

  1. Also , try to login to standby Versa Director URL and verify that the HA is enabled. The standby Versa Director will throw  the message “ This instance of Versa Director is running in a passive mode. Login to this instance is not allowed.”

 

  1. Go to the CLI of Active Versa Director node and check the HA status as shown below

 

 

 

 

  1. Go to the CLI of standby Versa Director node and check the HA status as shown below

 

 

  1. In order to perform the fail over operation – to change standby Versa Director to become active Versa Director, execute the below command in the Active Versa Director:

 

  1. Verify that the vdirector1 (Versa Director 1) has now become standby and vdiector2 (versa Director 2) has become active Node as shown below:

 

 

  1. For disabling the HA, run the below command from the Active Versa Director cli.

 

  

 

  

 

  1. For re-enabling the HA, run the below command from the Versa Director cli

  

 

  1. Verify that the HA is enabled using the below commands