Veritas Resiliency Platform 3.0

Following are the prerequisites for deploying the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances in AWS:

  • Follow the documentation of AWS to create the required security groups. make sure that the security groups meet the network and port requirements mentioned in the Resiliency Platform documentation are open.

    See Network and firewall requirements

  • A role named ImportImageRole must be created and the permissions required to import an image should be granted to the role. Follow the documentation of AWS to know about the permissions required to import an image.

  • Ensure that there is direct communication between the premise network and the AWS network. It is recommended to use VPN for AWS environment.

  • Ensure that Resiliency Manager and Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) have outgoing internet access enabled. You may choose to restrict incoming internet access on these virtual appliances.

  • For significant cost benefits, it is recommended to buy Amazon EC2 reserved instances for the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances as the virtual appliances will be running continuously. While buying the reserved instances, it is also recommended to select the availability zones where the virtual appliances are to be deployed; this will ensure reserved capacity. It is important to choose the reserved instance types that matches the virtual appliances' instance types.

See Deploying the virtual appliances in AWS

Veritas Resiliency Platform 3.0

Following are the prerequisites for deploying the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances in AWS:

  • Follow the documentation of AWS to create the required security groups. make sure that the security groups meet the network and port requirements mentioned in the Resiliency Platform documentation are open.

    See Network and firewall requirements

  • A role named ImportImageRole must be created and the permissions required to import an image should be granted to the role. Follow the documentation of AWS to know about the permissions required to import an image.

  • Ensure that there is direct communication between the premise network and the AWS network. It is recommended to use VPN for AWS environment.

  • Ensure that Resiliency Manager and Infrastructure Management Server (IMS) have outgoing internet access enabled. You may choose to restrict incoming internet access on these virtual appliances.

  • For significant cost benefits, it is recommended to buy Amazon EC2 reserved instances for the Resiliency Platform virtual appliances as the virtual appliances will be running continuously. While buying the reserved instances, it is also recommended to select the availability zones where the virtual appliances are to be deployed; this will ensure reserved capacity. It is important to choose the reserved instance types that matches the virtual appliances' instance types.

See Deploying the virtual appliances in AWS