Verify the following prerequisites before you begin to set up Pilot Light disaster recovery:
Domain Prerequisites
Install an Informatica domain in both zones.
The Informatica domain stores metadata on Amazon RDS configured for multi-AZ.
The Model repository and the Model repository database are stored on Amazon RDS configured for multi-AZ.
The Data Information Service is configured on the Amazon EFS that stores source and target data, caches, and log files.
Cluster Prerequisites
Availability Zones 1 and 2 are set up in the VPC.
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer monitors all gateway nodes in AZ1 and AZ2.
A Route53 alias is configured to point to the Elastic Load Balancer.
Create and maintain AMI with a copy of the Big Data Management binary package. Apply patches on a regular basis. Store and update AMI in S3 storage to ensure the image is updated.
Backup nodemeta.xml.
Create a backup scheduler for connector contents, and store backup files and snapshots in an Amazon S3 bucket.
A Hadoop cluster in installed in each availability zone.
Define backup policies for Informatica embedded Hadoop components, such as HDFS, Hive, and HBase. Create snapshots regularly and store the snapshots in an Amazon S3 bucket.