Version: 3.1

Prepare your Portworx cluster for asynchronous DR in FlashArray

You must configure an external load balancer for the Portworx API service on your source and destination clusters, as you are running Portworx in the cloud. An external load balancer is necessary because it assigns a public IP address for accessing Portworx on port 9001 from your worker nodes.

caution

It is recommended that you enable authorization on your Portworx cluster before enabling a load balancer.

Enable load balancing by running the kubectl edit stc command and adding the annotation to change service type value from nodePort to LoadBalancer as shown below:

kubectl edit stc <stc-name> -n <namespace>

apiVersion: core.libopenstorage.org/v1
kind: StorageCluster
metadata:
  annotations:
    portworx.io/service-type: "portworx-api:LoadBalancer"
...

You can verify the changes using the kubectl get service command.

kubectl get service -n <namespace>

NAME                        TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                                        AGE
portworx-service            LoadBalancer   10.233.56.13    192.0.2.20     9001:30278/TCP,9020:30908/TCP,9021:32598/TCP   18h

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