Many enterprises use Veritas NetBackup as a backup and recovery solution for their on-premises VMware vSphere-based workloads. Once enterprises migrate their workloads to software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in the VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, there is no clear lift-and-shift procedure to integrate NetBackup. This pattern describes how you can set up Veritas NetBackup in your AWS account and configure it to back up the workloads in your VMware SDDCs.
This pattern does not include instructions for migrating your workloads. For more information, see Migrate VMware SDDC to VMware Cloud on AWS using VMware HCX. When setting up your workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, use a stretched cluster (VMware documentation). In this configuration, your cluster spans two AWS Availability Zones within a single Region. This provides high availability and resiliency in the event that one of the Availability Zones becomes unavailable. Elastic DRS and a vSAN witness host (VMware documentation) seamlessly copy the data to a third Availability Zone, known as a fault domain. This parity solution can help you recover the data in the event of a failure. Because this approach requires three Availability Zones, when selecting an AWS Region for your VMware Cloud environment, make sure that it has three or more Availability Zones. For more information, see Regions and Availability Zones.
