Data Protection for Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation

After you implement the Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution, backing up the newly-added components ensures that you can keep your environment operational if data loss or failure occurs.

For validated data protection solutions, see VMware Cloud Foundation Validated Solutions.

You implement backups to prepare for:

• A critical failure of a component

• An upgrade of a component

• A certificate update of a component

You take the following backup types:

• Scheduled backups, which ensure that at any given point in time, you can restore from a recent backup.

• Manual backups before a system update, which ensure that if the operation is unsuccessful, you can restore to a point in time immediately before the operation.

• Manual backups after a recovery of a failed part of the system.

The HCX Connector appliance supports the use of an FTP server for storing backups and you can configure a schedule for it.