Set up your infrastructure for BlueXP disaster recovery
To use BlueXP disaster recovery, perform a few steps to set it up both in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and in BlueXP.
Review prerequisites to ensure that your environment is ready. |
Get ready for BlueXP disaster recovery
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Verify your production environment.
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Ensure that VMs that you want to protect are hosted on NFS datastores (using ONTAP NFS volumes) or VMFS datastores (using NetApp iSCSI LUNs).
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Ensure that you have credentials and access keys for your on-premises ONTAP arrays, vCenters and AWS-hosted VMware cloud instances.
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Create or verify your disaster recovery site.
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Create or verify your Amazon FSx file system is ready.
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Ensure that your source and destination VMs are peered.
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Set up VMware Cloud for AWS SDDC
Set up VMware Cloud for AWS software-defined data center (SDDC).
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Create an Amazon FSx for ONTAP file system. Provision and configure FSx for ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed service that provides highly reliable, scalable, high-performing, and feature-rich file storage built on the popular NetApp ONTAP file system.
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Follow the steps at this link and here Quick start for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to provision and configure FSx for NetApp ONTAP.
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Add Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to the working environment, and add AWS credentials for FSx for ONTAP.
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In AWS, you'll need to do the following steps:
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Deploy and configure VMware Cloud on AWS.
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Use a VMware account and provision the SDDC. Ensure that the SDDC has connectivity with FSx for ONTAP.
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Deploy VMware Cloud
VMware Cloud on AWS provides a cloud-native experience for VMware-based workloads in the AWS ecosystem. Each VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) runs in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and provides a full VMware stack (including vCenter Server), NSX-T software-defined networking, vSAN software-defined storage, and one or more ESXi hosts that provide compute and storage resources to the workloads.
To configure a VMC environment on AWS, follow the steps at this link. A pilot-light cluster can also be used for disaster recovery purposes.