If you are protecting an SDDC and want to expand its capacity, you can set up an additional protected site for it with a new cloud file system for extra capacity.

In some cases, you need to expand you protected capacity but do not want to deploy a second SDDC. To scale capacity for a protected SDDC, you can create an additional protected site and then use separate cloud file systems for each site to expand capacity.

For example, you have one protected SDDC with a single vCenter connected to its own cloud file system. You an create an additional protected site for it, register the site to the same vCenter, and then connect the second site to a different cloud file system, shown here:

You can register one vCenter to two protected sites, as long as each protected site has its own unique cloud file system.

Before You Set Up an Additional Protected SDDC

If your recovery SDDC is in the same AWS region as your protected SDDC, each cloud file system must be deployed to a different availability zone (AZ) than the the AZ where the recovery SDDC is deployed.

All cloud file systems must be deployed before you can connect them with a new protected SDDC.

The network connection configuration for the new protected site must be the configured the same for the original protected SDDC. If the initial protected SDDC firewall was configured manually, then you must manually create the same firewall rules on the second protected site.

Procedure

  1. From the left navigation, select Protected sites.
  2. Click the Set up protected site button.
  3. In the Setup protected site dialog box, under Site type select VMware Cloud on AWS.
  4. Under Cloud file system, select one or more cloud file systems to use for replicating snapshots from the protected SDDC. If there is a single cloud file system deployed, then it is selected. Click Next.
  5. On the next page of the dialog box, under Protected SDDC choose an SDDC to be protected, and then click Next.
    Select the SDDC you want to protect with an additional protected site.
  6. In the next page of the dialog box under Network connection, the text informs you that if the initial protected SDDC firewall was configured manually, then you must manually create the same firewall rules on the second protected site. Copy the VMware Live Cyber Recovery component IP addresses so you can create firewall rules on the protected SDDC to allow access to the service.
    If the initial protected SDDC firewall configuration was done automatically, then you do not need to do anything. The new protected SDDC site will use the same network configuration as the initial protectes site.
  7. Click Setup.