Selecting Sites

Configuring a recovery plan requires selecting a protected site and a recovery SDDC.

Protected Site Selection

On the Site page you define the protected site you want to fail over to a recovery SDDC using this recovery plan. In some cases, you might have multiple protected sites. The Protected Site drop-down menu displays a set of sites known to VMware Live Cyber Recovery that you can use for this recovery plan.

Recovery Site Selection

One of the most important configurations of a recovery plan is the recovery site defined in the plan, which is the recovery SDDC, where you recover the protected site to recover from a disaster or a ransomware attack.

Protection groups replicate snapshots to a cloud file system in the same AWS region as the recovery SDDC. These backups are instantly available to the recovery SDDC, resulting in instant VM power-on, once the SDDC is available and configured.

You have the option to failover to a recovery SDDC in a different Availability Zone from the Availability Zone of a protected SDDC. For example, you want to guarantee that backups never leave the origin region, which might result in lower costs and better replication bandwidth and RPO.