Once you have access to the VMware Live Recovery to your VMware Cloud Services organization, you can set up VMware Live Cyber Recovery.

When you set up VMware Live Cyber Recovery, you are activating an AWS region to use for snapshot replication, recovery, and ransomware recovery operations.

Part of setting up VMware Live Cyber Recovery requires authorizing access to VMware Cloud Services and VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Live Cyber Recovery leverages OAuth 2.0 apps to enable this authorization.

When you set up of VMware Live Cyber Recovery, you authorize the creation of two OAuth apps, which in turn authorizes VMware Live Cyber Recovery to connect to VMware Cloud Services and VMware Cloud on AWS:
  • An OAuth app named 'Cyber Recovery - VMware Cloud Services' is used to connect to VMware Cloud Services, so you can protect sites and create protection groups with snapshot replication. This OAuth app must be created before you can use VMware Live Cyber Recovery.
  • An OAuth app named 'Cyber Recovery - VMC on AWS' is used to connect to VMware Cloud on AWS, which enables you to deploy a recovery SDDC and perform disaster and ransomware recovery operations. Creating this Oauth app is optional, but without it you cannot perform any disaster or ransomware recovery operations.
You only need to authorize access once. If the two OAuth apps used to authorize VMware Live Cyber Recovery gets modified or deleted, you can reauthorize access.
Note: If you want to authorize this access before you set up the service, see Authorize Access for VMware Live Cyber Recovery.

Procedure

  1. Log in to VMware Cloud Services using your VMware account at https://console.cloud.vmware.com.
  2. From the left navigation, select Services and then click the 'Launch Service' link for the VMware Live Recovery tile.
  3. If this is the first region you are activating, then on the VMware Live Cyber Recovery tile click the Set Up button.
    If regions have already been activated, select Deployments from the left navigation, and from the Set Up Deployment button select Set Up VMware Live Cyber Recovery.
  4. On the VMware Cloud Services page, select the checkbox to allow the creation of an OAuth app to authorize VMware Live Cyber Recovery to access VMware Cloud Services.
    If authorization for VMware Cloud Services has not been granted yet, then this step is mandatory.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Next, on the VMware Cloud on AWS page, select the checkbox to allow the creation of an OAuth app to authorize VMware Live Cyber Recovery to access VMware Cloud on AWS.
    If authorization for VMware Cloud on AWS has not been granted yet, this step is optional. If you skip this step, then you will not be able to perform disaster and ransomware recovery operations until you authorize this access.
  7. Click Next.
  8. On the Activation page, select an AWS region to use for recovery.
    A recovery region is where the VMware Live Cyber Recovery Orchestrator and cloud file system are deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS. The recovery region is also where you deploy recovery SDDCs, run failover recovery plans, and replicate snapshots to the cloud file system using protection groups for VMware Live Cyber Recovery.
  9. Click Next.
  10. On the Summary page, accept the terms of your region activation. Confirm that you understand that hourly on-demand charges will be incurred for both protected capacity and protected VMs, unless covered by an active subscription.
  11. Click Finish.

What to do next

Now that you set up VMware Live Cyber Recovery and activated a cyber recovery region, you can now manage the region and access the VMware Live Cyber Recovery UI.