Tanzu for Valkey on Cloud Foundry 4.0

Enabling High Availability on VMware Tanzu Valkey on Cloud Foundry

Last Updated February 19, 2025

This topic tells you how to enable high availability for VMware Tanzu for Valkey on Cloud Foundry.

High availability enables a VMware Tanzu for Valkey on Cloud Foundry on-demand service instance to remain operational and accessible for extended periods of time, minimizing downtime and ensuring continuous functionality.

For a more detailed overview, see High availability access.

Configure a High-Availability-Enabled Plan

To configure a high-availability-enabled plan:

  1. Create a new plan/Edit an existing plan for the Redis (Valkey) tile in the On-Demand Plans tab.

  2. In the plan edit view, select the Enable HA check box.

    enable-ha

  3. Save your changes.

  4. Go back to Tanzu Operations Manager Installation Dashboard > Review Pending Changes.

  5. Click Apply Changes to apply the changes to the Tanzu for Valkey on Cloud Foundry tile.

Deactivate High-Availability from a Plan

To deactivate high-availability:

  1. Go to the service plan that you want to deactivate high availability for and clear the Enable HA check box. VMware recommends that you change the name or the description of the plan to indicate that high-availability access is deactivated for that plan.

  2. Go back to Tanzu Operations Manager Installation Dashboard > Review Pending Changes.

  3. Click Apply Changes to apply the changes to the Tanzu for Valkey on Cloud Foundry tile.

Developer Workflow

If high availability is deactivated/enabled and then re-enabled/re-deactivated, app developers must create new service keys to obtain a new set of credentials.