We are pleased to announce the latest release of NetApp's BlueXP disaster recovery solution, now featuring robust support for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This integration marks a significant milestone in simplifying disaster recovery processes and optimizing costs for enterprises leveraging hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Why Choose BlueXP Disaster Recovery?
BlueXP disaster recovery leverages the power of NetApp’s SnapMirror technology to provide a seamless, cost-effective, and reliable disaster recovery solution. With this latest release, we have enhanced BlueXP’s capabilities to better suit the needs of modern enterprises facing global challenges, offering a solution that is both simple to deploy and highly effective in protecting critical VMware workloads.
Key Features and Benefits
Seamless Integration with Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP
The new release of BlueXP disaster recovery supports Amazon EVS, allowing you to replicate your VMware environments directly to the cloud using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This cloud-based approach provides a separate replication environment from your primary data, ensuring that your disaster recovery processes are not only secure but also highly efficient. This integration further slashes costs and complexity by eliminating the need for maintaining alternative infrastructure in a secondary location.
High Performance and Reliability
BlueXP disaster recovery relies on SnapMirror technology, renowned for its performance and reliability. This technology includes advanced features like deduplication, compression, and block-level operations, which significantly reduce data transfer volumes and system overhead, leading to faster, more cost-effective disaster recovery operations.
Simplified Deployment and Administration
The intuitive BlueXP SaaS-delivered control plane simplifies deployment, replication, and administration across both on-premises and cloud environments. Easy-to-implement disaster recovery templates guide your failover and failback operations, enabling you to maintain continuous protection with minimal manual intervention.
Lower Costs and Increased Confidence
By utilizing a cloud-based disaster recovery approach, BlueXP significantly reduces costs associated with maintaining an alternative disaster recovery site. Continuous health checks, nondisruptive failover drills, and granular, multiple point-in-time recovery points ensure that your disaster recovery readiness is always at its peak, giving you complete confidence in your disaster recovery plan.
Efficient Failover and Failback Operations
The orchestration capabilities of BlueXP disaster recovery allow for instant failovers to VMware Cloud targets in AWS. You can non-disruptively test the failover process without impacting your production workloads. In the event of a disaster, BlueXP ensures a swift and smooth failover, followed by an efficient failback to the restored primary site once normal operations can resume.
For more details on this new release see this blog post:
Spring into Action with BlueXP Disaster Recovery: New Features for Spring 2025
With BlueXP disaster recovery you can recover to on-premises ONTAP environments or to
VMware Cloud and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Enhanced Benefits with Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP
Integrating BlueXP with Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP adds several critical benefits:
- Cost Optimization:
- FSx for ONTAP offers storage efficiencies including deduplication, compression, compaction, tiering cold data to lower-cost capacity pools, and thin provisioning. This enables scalable storage growth without ballooning costs, potentially achieving total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of up to 50%.
- Data Protection and High Availability:
- FSx for ONTAP is highly available with options for multiple Availability Zones (AZs) or a single AZ. Enhanced backup capabilities include NetApp Snapshot™, SnapMirror, and SnapLock® technologies, providing instant, crash-consistent data copies and tamper-proof data protection.
- Data Migration and Hybrid Cloud Management:
- FSx for ONTAP ensures consistent data management practices across AWS and on-premises. Seamless integration and bulk data migration with native ONTAP capabilities enable operational consistency and interoperability with AWS services.
- Multiprotocol Support:
- FSx for ONTAP supports both NFS and SMB, simplifying multi-protocol data access critical for applications requiring shared access across Windows and Linux environments.
- VMware Integration:
- FSx for ONTAP supports vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) for iSCSI and NFS datastores, enabling fast VM cloning, optimized vSphere operations, and offloading VM snapshot and backup operations.
For more details on Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP see the blog:
Using Amazon Elastic VMware Service with FSx for ONTAP to optimize costs and modernize VMware
Take the Next Step
Protecting your data and ensuring business continuity has never been more critical. With the new release of BlueXP disaster recovery, you are equipped with a powerful, cost-effective tool to handle disaster recovery seamlessly across your on-premises and cloud environments.
To learn more about how BlueXP disaster recovery with Amazon EVS and FSx for ONTAP can simplify and enhance your disaster protection strategy, visit our BlueXP Disaster Recovery home page.