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Overview

The nxtDR Administration Guide covers the full administrative lifecycle of NxtSight Disaster Recovery — from initial site registration and replication topology setup through ongoing operational management, compliance reporting, and security hardening.
Administrator Access Required — This operation requires the admin role. Contact your NxtSight administrator if you do not have sufficient permissions.
Prerequisites
  • Administrator credentials with the admin role on both primary and DR sites
  • Access to nxtDeploy (https://connect.<your-domain>) on both sites
  • Network connectivity established between primary and DR sites (dedicated replication link recommended)
  • Familiarity with RPO/RTO concepts and distributed storage replication

Topics

Architecture

nxtDR component topology, control plane design, and deployment models

Replication Configuration

Register sites, configure replication links, bandwidth, and encryption

Recovery Plans

Define resource groups, recovery ordering, health checks, and automation hooks

DR Automation

Automatic failover triggers, runbook scripting, and replication scheduling

Monitoring

nxtRadar integration, key DR metrics, alert thresholds, and dashboards

Compliance

RPO/RTO compliance reports, DR test audit trail, and failover history

Security

Replication encryption, RBAC roles, and site token management

Troubleshooting

Diagnose sync failures, unexpected failovers, and runbook script errors

Next Steps

nxtDR User Guide

Create protection plans, run DR tests, and perform failover and failback operations

nxtStore Admin Guide

Configure the distributed storage cluster that powers nxtDR replication

nxtRadar Admin Guide

Set up monitoring and alerts for replication lag and DR readiness metrics

NxtSight Compute Admin Guide

Manage the compute infrastructure protected by nxtDR recovery plans