Management Plane High Availability

This Management Plane High Availability design guide describes the measures you can take to backup and recover a failed Management Plane instance, and to deploy an active-standby pair of Management Planes.

High Availability Concepts

1. Introduction to HA

   An introduction to Management Plane architecture and HA strategies.

2. Failure Scenarios

   Understand each Failure Scenario and its impact.

3. Best Practices - Preparation

   The best practices to follow to prepare you for an HA deployment.

4. Monitor and Troubleshoot the Active Management Plane

   How to monitor the active Management Plane, and actions to troubleshoot and recover in the event of a failure.

Restoring a Failed Management Plane

1. Reinstall the Management Plane

   If your Management Plane, or the cluster it is running on fails, learn how to install a new Management Plane instance and import its configuration from a backup.

Advanced: Running an Active / Standby Management Plane

1. Deploy a Standby Management Plane

   How to deploy a Standby Management Plane and prepare it for automated backups-and-restore.

2. Automated Backup and Restore

   Automatic Backup and Restore from the Active Management Plane to a Standby Instance.

3. Manual Backup and Restore

   Manually backup the Active configuration and restore to the Standby instance.

4. Failover from Active to Standby

   If the active Management Plane cannot be recovered, how to fail over to the Standby instance.