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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

  • Verify your production environment.

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

    • Ensure that you have credentials and access keys for your on-premises ONTAP arrays, vCenters and AWS-hosted VMware cloud instances.

  • Create or verify your disaster recovery site.

    • Create or verify your Amazon FSx file system is ready.

    • Ensure that your source and destination VMs are peered.

Set up VMware Cloud for AWS SDDC

Set up VMware Cloud for AWS software-defined data center (SDDC).

  • 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.

  • Follow the steps at this link and here Quick start for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to provision and configure FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

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

  • In AWS, you'll need to do the following steps:

    • Deploy and configure VMware Cloud on AWS.

    • Use a VMware account and provision the SDDC. Ensure that the SDDC has connectivity with FSx for ONTAP.

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.

Set up licensing

With BlueXP disaster recovery, you can sign up for a 90-day free trial.

You can purchase one of the following:

  • A pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) subscription with AWS Marketplace

  • Bring Your Own License (BYOL), which is a NetApp License File (NLF).

Refer to Set up BlueXP disaster recovery licensing.