Onboard to VMware Live Cyber Recovery

Onboarding to VMware Live Cyber Recovery begins with learning about and signing up to buy the service.

1 Learn, Try, and Buy VMware Live Cyber Recovery

Use tools and resources on the VMware Cloud Launchpad to learn about VMware Live Cyber Recovery, estimate costs, how to use it, and how to buy it:



VMware Live Recovery product page	A one-stop-shop to learn about VMware Live Cyber Recovery. Explore multiple resources and tools that help you to effectively plan and execute your data protection strategy.
TCO calculator	Discover how much you can save with VMware Live Cyber Recovery.
VMware Live Cyber Recovery Planner	Plan for recovery by using this tool to size and estimate associated costs of your data protection solution.
Hands On Lab	Learn how to use VMware Live Cyber Recovery with the Hands On Lab.

Once you purchase VMware Live Cyber Recovery, perform these tasks to set up the service:


Task
Fill out the pre-deployment checklist.	Gather relevant information needed for deploying and setting up the service.
Apply a Subscription to your Organization	After your purchase VMware Live Cyber Recovery, VMware Cloud will send an email to the email address associated with your account that contains an invite link to VMware Cloud, so you can apply these subscriptions to your Organization.
Activate recovery region	After you add the service, you must activate an AWS region to use for recovery and data protection operations.
Open VMware Live Cyber Recovery	Open VMware Live Cyber Recovery when you are ready to start configuring the main components.
Invite users	Invite users to your organization and grant them specific roles, based on their intended use of the service.
Create an API token	Create an API token from the VMware Cloud Services console to use with VMware Live Cyber Recovery.
Add the API token	When you log in to VMware Live Cyber Recovery, add an API token you created in the VMware Cloud Services console.

To prepare your environment for disaster recovery operations, perform the following tasks:


Task	Description
Choose an availability zone for recovery	When you deploy a cloud file system for the first time, you must select an AWS Availability Zone (AZ) that is used for disaster recovery failover operations.
Deploy a cloud file system	Deploy a cloud file system for snapshot replication and cloud backup.
Set up a protected site	Set up a protected site, either a customer-managed vSphere or VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.
Deploy the Cyber Recovery connector	Once you set up a protected site, deploy the Cyber Recovery connector on it so you can begin replicating VM snapshots to the cloud file system.

To start using the service:



Create a protection group	Create a protection group to enable snapshot replication to a cloud file system. Snapshots are later used for failover operations to a recovery SDDC.
Deploy a recovery SDDC	Deploy a new or add an existing SDDC for recovery operations.
Configure a recovery plan	Configure a recovery plan to orchestrate failover of a protected site to a recovery SDDC.
Run a recovery plan for disaster recovery	Once you configure a recovery plan, you can run it as a failover, either for actual disaster recovery or for test operations.
Run a recovery plan for ransomware recovery.	You can choose to run a plan for ransomware recovery so you can analyse historical snapshots and perform forensics and recover comprosed VMs.
Run a failback recovery plan	When you are ready to restore a protected site, run a failback recovery plan to restore the site to its last best configuration.
Run a Ransomware recovery plan	You can test or run an actual ransomware recovery plan to analyze, inspect, and clean VMs attacked by ransomware and then restore them to a production site.