Primary & Backup Clusters:
Backup Clusters create region redundancy in VVCR. This provides some protection in case AWS Regions experience issues during your shows.
Clusters operate from AWS data centers located around the world. The region is the location of the data center. When creating a cluster, select the region closest to your source and destination. This will maintain the lowest possible latency for your streams.
If one AWS region is having issues, having the backup cluster in a different region is helpful because it’s extremely rare that two regions are experiencing issues at the same time.
So create the first cluster in the region closest to you and the second in the next closest region.
In the Stream Creation menu, select the first cluster in the Primary Cluster dropdown menu and the second cluster in the Backup cluster dropdown menu.
The Backup Cluster option won’t appear in the stream creation menu unless you have two or more clusters created.
Primary & Backup Encoders:
Primary and Backup Encoders provide extra redundancy for streams, while keeping them within the same VPC. Redundant Encoders allow multiple sources to send to the same VVCR stream simultaneously.
Create a new Cluster with at least two instances.
Create a new stream and adjust the settings as normal.
Go to the Encoder Redundancy menu and check Primary and Backup Encoders.
Select the first instance for X Primary and the second instance under X Backup.
Press save.
Select the stream and click the Inputs tab.
Each instance is assigned a SRT address. Send your primary feed to the first address and the backup feed to the second.
Go to the Outputs tab.
Click on the Input dropdown menu to switch between the primary and backup feeds.
Create a new Destination and configure it as normal.
If you need to switch to your backup during a show, go back into the destination’s settings.
Click on the Stream Encoder dropdown menu and switch from Primary to Backup.
Press save.
It can take 5-10 seconds for the change to reflect on the platform.