ECS 3.6.1 Administration Guide

Create a VDC for a single site

You can create a VDC for a single-site deployment, or when you create the first VDC in a multi-site federation.

1. In the ECS Portal, select Manage > Virtual Data Center.
2. On the Virtual Data Center Management page, click New Virtual Data Center.
3. On the New Virtual Data Center page, in the Name field, type the VDC name (for example: VDC1).
4. To create an access key for the VDC, either:
   • Type the VDC access key value in the Key field, or
   • Click Generate to generate a VDC access key.
   The VDC Access Key is used as a symmetric key for encrypting replication traffic between VDCs in a multi-site federation.
5. In the Replication Endpoints field, type the replication IP address of each node assigned to the VDC. Type them as a comma-separated list.
   By default replication traffic runs on the public network. Therefore by default, the IP address configured for the public network on each node is entered here. If the replication network was separated from the public or management network, each node's replication IP address is entered here.
   If a load balancer is configured to distribute the load between the replication IP addresses of the nodes, the address configured on the load balancer is displayed.
6. In the Management Endpoints field, type the management IP address of each node assigned to the VDC. Type them as a comma-separated list.
   By default management traffic runs on the public network. Therefore by default, the IP address configured for the public network on each node is entered here. If the management network was separated from the public or replication network, each node's management IP address is entered here.
7. Click Save.
   When the VDC is created, ECS automatically sets the VDC's Type to either On-Premise or Hosted.
   A Hosted VDC is hosted off-premise by a third-party data center (a backup site).