How pairing works in Data Lifecycle Manager

Pairing verifies compatibility and establishes communication between the clusters that you want to use as source or destination clusters in a replication relationship. Pairings are bi-directional, so either cluster in a pair can serve as the source or as the destination in a replication policy.

After pairing is complete, you can create a replication policy between the paired clusters, and you can establish through the policy which cluster is the source and which is the destination.

Pairings can only be performed on clusters that have been registered with Data Lifecycle Manager. If a cluster you want to use is not visible, you need to register it from the DPS Platform UI, logged in as DataPlane Admin.