For faster, reliable, and more secure connections between your protected sites and VMware Live Cyber Recovery, set up a private network connection between them.

For VMware Cloud on AWS protected SDDCs, you can leverage VMware Transit Connect™ to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency connections between your protected SDDCs and VMware Live Cyber Recovery.

To use VMware Transit Connect, your SDDC must be in a connected SDDC group, which you create before setting up the private connection.
Note: VMware Transit Connect uses the AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) construct. It provides high bandwidth and low latency connectivity between SDDCs in an SDDC Group within a single AWS Region. Using the gateway incurs charges when you use it, per-hour and per-GB of data processed, per-gateway. For more information, see AWS Transit Gateway pricing.

For on-premises protected sites, you can configure AWS Direct Connect private virtual interfaces (VIFs) for on-premises protected site networks. To use Direct Connect, you must attach at least one virtual interface (VIF).

AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network connection between your on-premises data center and AWS services. You can order this connection using your (customer-managed) AWS account.

For both connection types, you first set up a CIDR block in the /26 range from your company's private IP network scheme, which is used for all replication traffic using IP addresses from the reserved CIDR block.
Note: Be sure that the /26 CIDR block you choose is unique to the network and does not overlap with any existing CIDR.

After this CIDR has been configured, you can configure either VMware Transit Connect or Direct Connect, and then set up your protected sites with the private connection.