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Enabling Cloud Federation

Cloud federation is a feature of HyperCloud that lets you create different zones to provide compute and network resources from while maintaining a common user and group structure.

To enable Cloud federation you have to elect one site to be the master zone. The master zone holds the authoritative user information for the cluster. If the master zone site is unavailable, changes to user information will be unavailable but everything else will function normally.

Once you have selected a master zone site, set up SSH authentication:

  1. master-dashboard# cat ~oneadmin/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  2. slave-dashboard# echo 'ContentsOfid_rsa.pub' >> /var/run/cluster-control/facts/authorized-keys

Then run the following command on the dashboard node of the cluster at the master zone site:

  1. master-dashboard# hypercloud-zones-configure-slave master -
  2. Zone Name: ZoneName
  3. Zone SSH Destination: ZoneSSHDestination

Where *ZoneName* is the name of the zone to create and *ZoneSSHDestination* is the string you use to SSH to the dashboard node on that site's cluster.