In order to use Cove Data Protection (Cove)'s Disaster Recovery as a Service, you must ensure the correct configuration of VPN Connections.
- Sign in to the Management Console using a SuperUser account.
- Navigate to Continuity > DRaaS > VPN Connections
- Select the inactive VPN and click Configure VPN connection
- In the Configure VPN Connections window, Download the VPN appliance.
The zip file that is downloaded includes two folders: Virtual Hard Disks containing the Virtual Machine image and Virtual Machines containing various Hyper-V virtualization files.
- Next, click Generate token to generate the token needed for the installation of the VPN Appliance and take a copy of this. You will need it in step 10.
- Click Save Changes to close the window.
- Extract the files from the VPN appliance download and import the entire folder to your Hyper-V environment to create the Virtual Machine.
During import, make sure that the Network Connection from the dropdown is the one corresponding to the subnet chosen when the failover was started.
- Log in using the provided credentials.
- Run vpn_agent.run located in the vpn-agent user home folder.
- Insert the token generated and copied in step 5 to complete the setup, when prompted.
If successful, a VPN tunnel is established. VPN connection status is changed to VPN Tunnel Active
It is mandatory to enable MAC address spoofing, when assigning a network adapter to the VM.
A token cannot be reused. If you have lost a token or it has expired, to generate a new one you need to go to VPN connection settings and click the Generate token button.
Regenerating the token will break the VPN connection. To restore access, update your appliance with the new token.
For test failover, ensure that you use different IPs from your real production workload to avoid conflicts.
To disconnect the VPN connection, you can power off the VPN appliance on your production side, keeping it available for future recovery tests.