STACKIT

Configure the target cloud in two ways: via the UI or via API functions.

To configure the target cloud via the UI, open the ACP. In the right part of the page, above the client list, click the Manage Clouds button. The page displays information about the target clouds. Use the available commands in the Actions menu to configure clouds. To add a cloud, click Add below the table with the list of target clouds.

Select the STACKIT cloud type.

Fill in the fields on the Basic Parameters tab by providing information about the cloud configuration. Click "?" for field tips.

The table below provides a normative mapping between UI field labels and API parameter names used by Hystax Acura during cloud discovery, replication, and recovery workflows.

Table 1: STACKIT cloud: basic parameters.

Field name in UI / API	Description	Example
Cloud name / name	The cloud name to be displayed in the UI. The name must be unique.	test_cloud
Project ID / project_id	Target project ID where replicated workloads will be spun up	12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc
Service account credentials / service_account	Cloud service account credentials in JSON format	{"project_id":"12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc","private_key":"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----..."}
Organization / organization_id	Name of the user's organization (to be created together with the user)	example-org
Availability zone / availability_zone	Availability zone where all resources will be created	eu01-az1
Hystax Service Network / cloud_agent_network	Network in which the Hystax cloud agent is deployed. Should be the same or routable to the network in which a Hystax Acura instance is located.	provider
Replication storage type / -	Choose storage type to use for replicated data. Migration and recovery from cloud-native block storage is fastest, but the other storage types can be cheaper. Detailed description.	Cloud-native block storage

If necessary, add information about additional parameters. To do this, go to the Additional Parameters tab, select the required parameter, and enter its value. The tooltip system works similarly to the Basic Parameters tab. Description of additional parameters:

Table 2: STACKIT cloud: additional parameters.

Field name in UI / API	Description
Add qemu_agent meta / add_qemu_agent_meta	Insert qemu_agent meta parameters into metadata of volumes created by Acura
Cloud site parallel resources limit / cloud_site_parallel_resources_limit	How many resources of the same type are allowed to be created in parallel during Cloud Site creation
Cloud site timeout / cloud_site_timeout_min	Cloud site creation timeout in minutes
Cloud agent capacity / max_assigned_volumes	Set this to override cloud agent's assignable volumes capacity
Cloud agent flavor / cloud_agent_flavor	Flavor to use for the cloud agent instances
Cloud agent flavor requirements / cloud_agent_flavor_requirements	Requirements for cloud agent flavor in JSON format, for example: {"cpu": "value", "ram": "value", "hdd": "value"}
Cloud agent image id / cloud_agent_image_name	Id of the cloud agent image from the target cloud
Cloud agent security group / cloud_agent_security_group	Security group used by Cloud Agents
Cloud agent volume type / cloud_agent_volume_type	Cloud agent volume type
Enable ransomware protection / enable_ransomware_check	Detect and suspend machines with abnormally large incremental replication size to mitigate possible ransomware impact.
Insert os_tag key / os_tag_key	Name of tag containing description of OS installed on device which will be inserted into metadata of volumes created by Acura
Key pair name / key_name	Key pair name to access the cloud agent
Minimal count of cloud agents / min_ca_alive	Minimum count of cloud agents which should stay alive according scaling policy
P2V type / p2v_type	In this field, you can specify a non-standard P2V - for example, for cloud "Virtuozzo, you need to specify "virtuozzo"
Ransomware protection threshold / ransomware_threshold	Ransomware protection threshold (in percent). Defines the maximum permissible size of incremental replication relative to the latest full backup. Exceeding this threshold triggers automatic machine suspension.
Region / region_name	Target region name
Replicated volume type / failover_volume_type	Default volume type used to create volumes for replicated VMs
Security group / security_group	Name of the security group with all required ports opened
Send replication data to cloud agent directly / use_receiver_mesh	Check this box to send replication data directly to cloud agent, it can increase replication speed.
Use cloud-native UEFI / use_native_efi	By default, all UEFI VMs are automatically converted to boot through BIOS. Set this parameter to disable conversion and use cloud-native UEFI boot instead. Please note, that some clouds support BIOS boot only and require this parameter to be disabled.
Use https server on cloud agent / cloud_agent_https	When this option is enabled, the cloud agent starts with an https server. This option will not be applied to existing agents, only to new ones.
Use public IP for cloud agent / use_ca_floating_ip	Cloud Agent will be created with public IP and Acura will use public IP to connect to Cloud Agent

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