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BlueXP disaster recovery

Set up your infrastructure for BlueXP disaster recovery

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To use BlueXP disaster recovery, perform a few steps to set it up both in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and in BlueXP.

Tip Review prerequisites to ensure that your environment is ready.

Get ready for BlueXP disaster recovery for on-premises-to-on-premises protection

Ensure that the following requirements are met before you set up BlueXP disaster recovery for on-premises-to-on-premises protection:

  • ONTAP storage

    • Ensure that you have ONTAP credentials.

    • Create or verify your disaster recovery site.

    • Create or verify your destination ONTAP SVM.

    • Ensure that your source and destination ONTAP SVMs are peered.

  • vCenter clusters

    • Ensure that the VMs you want to protect are hosted on NFS datastores (using ONTAP NFS volumes) or VMFS datastores (using NetApp iSCSI LUNs).

    • Review vCenter privileges required for BlueXP DR.

    • Create a disaster recovery user account (not the default vCenter admin account) and assign the vCenter privileges to the account.

Get ready for BlueXP disaster recovery for on-premises-to-cloud protection using AWS

To set up BlueXP disaster recovery for on-premises-to-cloud protection using AWS, you need to set up the following:

  • Set up AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP

  • Set up VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

Set up AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP

  • Create an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system.

  • Add Amazon FSx for ONTAP to the working environment, and add AWS credentials for FSx for ONTAP.

  • Create or verify your destination ONTAP SVM in AWS FSx for ONTAP instance.

  • Configure replication between your source on-premises ONTAP cluster and your FSx for ONTAP instance in BlueXP.

Refer to how to set up an FSx for ONTAP working environment for detailed steps.

Set up VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

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 VMware Cloud environment on AWS, follow the steps in Deploy and configure the Virtualization Environment on AWS. A pilot-light cluster can also be used for disaster recovery purposes.