BlueXP is now NetApp Console
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Hello everyone. Today I want to introduce Blue XP support for Amazon Elastic VMware service along with a demonstration of how easy it is to use Blue XPDR with Amazon EVS. Now Amazon EVS provides a fully managed VMware solution that gives you full control over your VMware operations using Vsenter exactly like an on premises deployment. It uses the same APIs and enables you to use the same tools like Blue XP disaster recovery that you use to protect your on premises deployments.Amazon EVS is designed to use Amazon FSX storage services as data stores. And when EVS is using Amazon FSX for NetApp on Blue XPDR can provide a fully managed DR service between your on premises and Amazon VMware infrastructures. As we can see here on the screen, we have a protection plan already created. Our protected site is an on premises vsenter and our failover site is a cloud hosted Amazon EVS data center. The key point I want to try to make here is that using Amazon EVS is just as easy as using any other failover site within Blue XPDR. To initiate the failover, we simply click the replication plans extended menu and select failover. Here we can either take an immediate snapshot now assuming that our production site is still active or in the event of a true site failure we would select a previously created snapshot to use for recovery. Finally, we verify that we want to fail over and then click the failover button. In a matter of minutes, Blue XPDR will perform the steps required to bring the Amazon FSX for NetApp ontap volumes online, register them with Amazon EVSSV center, and restart the protected VMs using the settings defined in the replication plan. Here we can see each step that Blue XPDR performed as part of the failover process. The total amount of time it takes to recover the VMs in the replication plan will vary depending on the number of VMs and the number of data stores that need to be activated. But typically recovery times are in minutes from the failover initiation. To fail back to the original production vsenter site, we again go to the replication plans extended menu and select fail back. In this case, we would want to capture the latest state of the VMs as possible. So we will choose to create a snapshot now and use that as our failback state. And once again we see the status of the failback as it's performed here. Now that we have seen blue XPDR in action using an Amazon EVS virtual data center, let's see how easy it is to define your EVS center within Blue XP disaster recovery. First we need to create a Blue XPDR site to host the Amazon EVS cluster. To do this, we simply need to go to the sites tab, which I am displaying here, and to click the add button. In the dialogue box, we need to give our site a name. And then we need to tell Blue XPDR that this site is an Amazon EVS site. Once the site is created, we now need to add our Amazon EVSCenter cluster. Since this is an empty site, Blue XP prompts you to add vssenter by presenting an add vsenter button on the left side of the site's information card. If this site was already hosting one or more vsenter clusters, we would need to go to the site's extended menu and click on add vsenter. So, let's click the add vsenter button. We are now presented with an add vsenter dialogue where we will simply fill in the fields presented and click add. The information required to access a vssenter cluster using EVS is the same information we would expect to use on any on premises vsenter cluster. EVS looks, acts, and feels just like an on- premises vsenter. Blue XP disaster recovery continues to expand our cloud platform support with this new addition. Amazon EVS is a powerful and cost-effective tool you can use to protect your on premises VMware infrastructure hosted on NetApp ontap storage platforms. If you would like to learn more about Blue XP disaster recovery, I encourage you to visit netAppapp.com/bluep.And if you would like to learn more about Amazon's elastic VMware service, go to aws.mamazon.com/evs. Yes.
BlueXP disaster recovery provides cloud-based "as a service" DR protection for on-premises VMware virtual applications. This demonstration illustrates how BlueXP and Amazon have teamed up to protect your VMs using Amazon Elastic VMware Service.