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Add sites in BlueXP disaster recovery for Amazon EVS

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Before you can protect your VM infrastructure, identify which VMware vCenter clusters are hosting the VMs to be protected and where those vCenters are located. The first step is to create a site to represent the source and destination datacenters. A site is a failure domain or a recovery domain.

You need to create the following:

  • A site to represent each production datacenter where your production vCenter clusters reside

  • A site for your Amazon EVS/Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP cloud datacenter

Create on-premises sites

Create a production vCenter site.

Steps
  1. From the BlueXP left navigation, select Protection > Disaster Recovery.

  2. From any page in BlueXP disaster recovery, select the Sites tab.

    Sites tab

  3. From the Sites tab, select Add.

    Add option on the Sites tab

  4. In the Add site dialog box, provide a site name.

  5. Select “On-prem” as the Location.

  6. Select Add.

    Create site dialog box

If you have other production vCenter sites, you can add them using the same steps.

Create Amazon cloud sites

Create a DR site for Amazon EVS using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage.

  1. From any page in BlueXP disaster recovery, select the Sites tab.

    Sites tab

  2. From the Sites tab, select Add.

    Add option on the Sites page

  3. In the Add site dialog box, provide a site name.

  4. Select "AWS-EVS" as the Location.

  5. Select Add.

    Add dialog box

Result

You now have a production (source) site and a DR (destination) site created.