You can deploy Commvault Cloud to protect workloads running in VMware Cloud on AWS. The vCenter and hosts reside on high-performance servers in the AWS datacenter.
VMware Cloud on AWS operates in the same way as an on-premises deployment of VMware, except that AWS does not provide access to hosts.
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vSAN is used as a shared datastore.
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SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center) versions supported: 1.3, 1.5–1.14
For best results, use an S3 VPC endpoint to communicate with S3 resources.
For more information, see VMware Cloud on AWS.
Configuring Backup for VMware Cloud on AWS
Configure backups for VMware CLoud on AWS using Commvault Cloud Backup for VMware
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Configure Amazon S3 storage as the primary copy in the same region as your VMware datacenter for best performance and to avoid inter-region data transfer charges.
Note: You can configure Air Gap Protect as a secondary copy, however this will lead to egress data transfer charges.
Features
Commvault Cloud Version 11 supports the following features with VMware Cloud on AWS:
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Backups and restores using vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
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Changed block tracking (CBT)
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Full, incremental, and synthetic full backups
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Restores of full VMs, VMDKs (alone or attaching to a VM), and guest files and folders
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Hotadd transport mode
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NBD transport mode (SDDC Version 1.8 or a more recent version)
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Application-aware backups
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VM conversion from VMware to Amazon
Limitations
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Because there is no access to hosts, the following Commvault Cloud features are not supported for VMware Cloud on AWS:
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Live VM recovery using vMotion
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Live mount
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When you restore a VM to a different ESXi host or cluster, you must specify the resource pool and VM folder path for the restored VM.