You configure the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service to replicate and orchestrate the recovery of workloads running on a VMware Cloud Foundation instance.
Cloud File System
A cloud file system provides storage capacity in the cloud for storing virtual machine snapshots that are replicated from the protected site. A cloud file system and recovery SDDC must be in the same availability zone inside a single AWS region.
Decision ID |
Design Decision |
Design Justification |
Design Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
CBW-VLCR-CFG-001 |
Deploy a cloud file system in the same availability zone inside one AWS region as the recovery SDDC. |
Cloud file systems and recovery SDDCs must be the same availability zone inside one AWS region. |
None. |
Protected Site
A protected site encompasses vCenter Servers, protection groups, and recovery plans. When you create the protected site, you deploy a minimum of two VMware Live Cyber Recovery Connector appliances into your vSphere environment for availability.
After you set up a protected site, you create protection groups to replicate snapshots to a cloud file system. You can then use available snapshots from the cloud file system to recover protected VMs into your recovery SDDC using recovery plans.
Decision ID |
Design Decision |
Design Justification |
Design Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
CBW-VLCR-CFG-002 |
Create a protected site for your VMware Cloud Foundation instance using a public internet connection. |
Defines the VMware Cloud Foundation instance where business workloads will be protected. |
None. |
CBW-VLCR-CFG-003 |
Associate the VMware Live Cyber Recovery Connector appliances with the protected site. |
Provides secure communication over the internet between the on-premises vCenter Server and the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service. |
Deploy the VMware Live Cyber Recovery Connector appliances manually into your VMware Cloud Foundation management domain vCenter Server. |
CBW-VLCR-CFG-004 |
Register the VI workload domain vCenter Server with the protected site in the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service. |
Connects the on-premises vCenter Server of the VI workload domain with the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service to enable protection of business workloads. |
Requires at least one VMware Live Cyber Recovery Connector appliance deployed within the on-premises vCenter Server. |
Recovery SDDC
The VMware Live Cyber Recovery service uses a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC as the recovery target. When configuring the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service, you attach a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC to provide compute, storage and networking resources for the recovery of business workloads.
Decision ID |
Design Decision |
Design Justification |
Design Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
CBW-VLCR-CFG-005 |
Attach the pilot light VMware Cloud on AWS recovery SDDC to the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service. |
Provides a target SDDC for virtual machine recovery. |
None. |
Email Alerts
You can configure the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service to send an email alert when SLA statuses change and when a recovery plan finishes running. Email addresses added here also receive emails for VMware Live Cyber Recovery system alerts.
To send an email to users when a recovery plan finishes running, you first must add their email addresses in the alerts page of a recovery plan.
Decision ID |
Design Decision |
Design Justification |
Design Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
CBW-VLCR-CFG-006 |
Configure the VMware Live Cyber Recovery service to send SLA status alerts. |
Ensures that if any SLA status alerts are triggered, they are communicated to support representatives. |
VMware Live Cyber Recovery uses the AWS mail service. Recipients must respond to the AWS email address verification request before receiving an email from VMware Live Cyber Recovery. |
