You can create a VMware Live Recovery subscription for either protected VMs, protected capacity, or both.

If your seller of record is AWS, then you can create a protected VM or protected capacity subscription, and choose a term length of your choice, and pay the full amount up front, or pay monthly. Paying the full amount up front saves considerable costs.

Note: You can only create a subscription if your seller of record for VMware Live Recovery AWS. If your seller of record is VMware, contact your sales representative.

Protected storage capacity is the sum of the logical storage size, measured in tebibytes (TiB), of your protected VMs and the incremental snapshots you replicate to a cloud file system.

Note: Protected capacity subscriptions are only required if you are using VMware Live Cyber Recovery.

Note: 1 TiB = approximately 1.10 TB

A minimum charge of 10 TiB of data capacity per- VMware Live Cyber Recovery Orchestrator per-recovery region applies across each subscription region. If you do not have enough subscription capacity to cover the minimum charge or actual usage, on-demand charges will apply to meet the minimum charge.

Note: Recovery regions are associated with VMware Cloud subscription regions. Each subscription region contains several AWS regions that the subscription covers, and each subscription region can be associated with different sellers.

Procedure

1. Log in to VMware Cloud Services using your VMware account at https://console.cloud.vmware.com.
2. Under Services > My Services, click Launch service in the VMware Live Recovery tile.
3. From the left navigation, select Subscriptions.
4. On the Subscriptions page, you can click Create Subscription if your seller of record is AWS.
   If VMware is the seller of record, then contact VMware Support for assistance.
5. Select a seller.
6. Under Protected VMs, enter the number of VMs you want to protect. If you do not know many VMs, or just want to create a capacity subscription, you can deselect the option.
7. Next, select Protected Capacity and select either the datacenter or geographical location.
8. Select a subscription region, of which there are four to choose from. Then, add a value for the amount of protected capacity you want to purchase. Click Next.
9. On the Subscription Term page, choose a subscription term. Also, choose if you want to pay in full or in monthly installments. Click Next.
10. On the Summary page, review your subscription and ensure that it is correct. Confirm that you understand the conditions of the subscription. When you are ready to place the order, click Place Order.