Is it possible to replicate a LUN from our EMC VNX5300 to Amazon Web Services? This would be for a disaster recovery scenario. I've talked to AWS and they said to talk to EMC. I've talked to several EMC employees one of them being an engineer. None of them seem to understand what I'm asking.
Is it possible to replicate an entire LUN on an EMC to AWS using block level replication similar to what our primary and secondary EMC use for replication?
Whether it's some magic utility, device or service.
No I don't want to create an instance in the cloud with six 1 TB drives and do an rsync from on-premise to the cloud. This is extremely inefficient. I'm looking for a block-level replication strategy.
Best Answer
It looks like there is at least one vendor with a product that does this. (By the way, I found it by searching Google for `"AWS Storage Gateway" EMC VNX
http://www.twinstrata.com/cloudarray-product-tour/
TwinStrata have recently been bought by EMC, so back to your EMC rep and ask them about CloudArray, to see if it's compatible with your existing architecture and replication strategy.