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BlueXP disaster recovery

Add vCenters to a site

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Before you can create a disaster recovery plan, you need to add a primary vCenter server to a site and a target vCenter disaster recovery site in BlueXP.

After they are added, BlueXP disaster recovery performs a deep discovery of the vCenter environments, including vCenter clusters, ESXi hosts, datastores, storage foot print, virtual machine details, SnapMirror replicas, and virtual machine networks.

Steps

  1. Log in to BlueXP and select Protection > Disaster recovery from the left nav.

    You’ll land on BlueXP disaster recovery Dashboard page. When you first start with the service, you need to add vCenter information. Later, the Dashboard displays data about your sites and replication plans.

    Note Different fields appear depending on the type of site you are adding.

  2. Source: Select Discover vCenter servers to enter information about the source vCenter site.

    Tip If some vCenter sites already exist and you want to add more, from the top menu, select Sites and then select Add.

    Add vCenter server screenshot

    • Add a site, select the BlueXP Connector, and provide vCenter credentials.

    • (Applies only to on-premises sites) To accept self-signed certificates for the source vCenter, check the box.

      Note Self-signed certificates are not as secure as other certificates. If your vCenter is NOT configured with certificate authority (CA) certificates, you should check this box; otherwise, the connection to the vCenter will not work.

  3. Select Add.

    Next, you will add a target vCenter.

  4. Target:

    1. Choose the target site and the location. If the target is cloud, select AWS.

      • (Applies only to cloud sites) API token: Enter the API token to authorize service access for your organization. Create the API token by providing specific organization and service roles.

      • (Applies only to cloud sites) Long organization ID: Enter the unique ID for the organization. You can identify this ID by clicking on the username in the Account section of the BlueXP console.

    2. Select Add.

      The source and target vCenters appear on the list of sites.

      Sites page screenshot

  5. To see the progress of the operation, from the top menu, select Job monitoring.