Add on-premises arrays to the BlueXP working environment for Amazon EVS with BlueXP disaster recovery
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Before using BlueXP disaster recovery, you must add on-premises and cloud-hosted storage instances to the BlueXP working environment.
You need to do the following:
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Add on-premises arrays to your BlueXP working environment.
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Add Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP) instances to your BlueXP working environment.
Add on-premises storage arrays to BlueXP working environment
Add on-premises ONTAP storage resources to your BlueXP working environment.
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From the BlueXP Canvas, select Add Working Environment.
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From the Add Working Environment page, select the On-Premises card.
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Select Discover on the On-Premises ONTAP card.
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On the Discover Cluster page, enter the following information:
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The IP address of the ONTAP array cluster management port
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The administrator username
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The administrator password
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Select Discover at the bottom of the page.
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Repeat steps 1-5 for each ONTAP array that will host vCenter datastores.
Add Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage instances to BlueXP working environment
Next, add an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage resources to your BlueXP working environment.
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From the BlueXP Canvas, select Add Working Environment.
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From the Add Working Environment page, select the Amazon Web Services card.
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Select the Discover Existing link on the Amazon FSx for ONTAP card.
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Select the credentials and AWS region hosting the FSx for ONTAP instance.
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Select one or more FSx for ONTAP file systems to be added.
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Select Discover at the bottom of the page.
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Repeat steps 1-6 for each FSx for ONTAP instance that will host vCenter datastores.