Prerequisites for Amazon EVS with NetApp Disaster Recovery
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Ensure you review and meet the requirements to configure Amazon EVS with NetApp Disaster Recovery.
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Review the general prerequisites for Disaster Recovery.
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Create a vCenter user account with the specific VMware privileges required for NetApp Disaster Recovery to perform the necessary operations.
It's recommended you do not use the default "administrator@vsphere.com" administrator account. Instead, you should create a NetApp Disaster Recovery specific user account on all vCenter clusters that will participate in the disaster recovery process. For a list of specific privileges required, see vCenter privileges needed for NetApp Disaster Recovery. -
Ensure that all vCenter datastores that will host VMs protected by Disaster Recovery are located on NetApp ONTAP storage resources.
Disaster Recovery supports NFS and VMFS on iSCSI (and not FC) when using Amazon FSx on NetApp ONTAP. Although Disaster Recovery supports FC, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP does not.
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Ensure your Amazon EVS vCenter is connected to an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage cluster.
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Ensure VMware tools are installed on all protected VMs.
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Ensure your on-premises network is connected to your AWS VPC network using an Amazon-approved connection method. It's recommended you use AWS Direct Connect, AWS Private Link, or an AWS Site-to-Site VPN.
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Review and ensure compliance with the connection and port requirements for EVS with Disaster Recovery:
Source Destination Port Details Amazon FSxN
On-premises ONTAP
TCP 11104, 11105, ICMP
SnapMirror
On-premises ONTAP
Amazon FSxN
TCP 11104, 11105, ICMP
SnapMirror
NetApp Console agent
On-premises ONTAP
TCP 443, ICMP only
API calls
NetApp Console agent
Amazon FSxN
TCP 441, ICMP only
API calls
NetApp Console agent
vCenter (on-premises, EVS), ESXi host (on-premises, EVS)
443
API calls, script execution