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BlueXP disaster recovery

Prerequisites for Amazon EVS with BlueXP disaster recovery

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You should ensure that several prerequisites are met before you continue to configure Amazon EVS with BlueXP disaster recovery.

Specifically, do the following:

  • Create a vCenter user account with the specific VMware privileges required for BlueXP disaster recovery to perform the necessary operations.

    Note We do not recommend using the default "administrator@vsphere.com" administrator account. Instead, you should create a BlueXP disaster recovery specific user account on all vCenter clusters that will participate in the DR process. For a list of specific privileges required, see vCenter privileges needed for BlueXP disaster recovery.

  • Ensure that all vCenter datastores that will host VMs protected by BlueXP disaster recovery are located on NetApp ONTAP storage resources.

    The service supports NFS and VMFS on iSCSI (and not FC) when using Amazon FSx on NetApp ONTAP. While the service supports FC, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP does not.

  • Ensure that your Amazon EVS vCenter is connected to an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage cluster.

  • Ensure that VMware tools are installed on all protected VMs.

  • Ensure that your on-premises network is connected to your AWS VPC network using an Amazon approved connection method. We recommend that you use AWS Direct Connect, AWS Private Link, or an AWS Site-to-Site VPN.