Protecting AWS or Azure VMs for recovering to VMware
NetBackup allows you to protect AWS and Azure VMs and restore the protected VMs as on-premises VMware VMs. This section describes the considerations and prerequisites for the same.
NetBackup supports recovering backup images from AWS EC2 or Azure VMs in the MSDP storage server and MSDP Cloud, without using Glacier or Archive mode.
Supported operating systems of the source VMs:
Windows Server 2022 Series
RHEL 9.x
SUSE 15SP5: For source VM in AWS provider, must be created from HVM AMI. NetBackup does not support ARM-type VM conversion.
The network interface in the source VM must use DHCP and be enabled on boot.
If the source VM platform is Linux, it must be a UUID Linux VM used in
/etc/fstab. If the source VM platform is Windows, enablepagefileon the C drive.