Using CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby › CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby Monitoring Tasks › Power on Virtual Standby Virtual Machines from Recovery Point Snapshots

Power on Virtual Standby Virtual Machines from Recovery Point Snapshots

Virtual Standby can be configured to power on Virtual Standby virtual machines from recovery point snapshots automatically when the monitoring server does not detect a heartbeat from the source server. Optionally, Virtual Standby lets you power on Virtual Standby virtual machines from recovery point snapshots manually in the event a source server fails, an emergency occurs, or you want to offline a source node for maintenance.

Note: The following steps describe how to power on Virtual Standby virtual machines from recovery point snapshots manually. For information about how to allow Virtual Standby to power on Recovery Point Snapshots automatically, see Create Policies.

Follow these steps:

1. Open Virtual Standby and click Nodes on the Navigation bar to open the Node screen.
2. From the Groups list, click All Nodes, or click the group that contains the CA ARCserve D2D node that you want to log in to.

   The nodes list displays all nodes that are associated with the specified group.

3. Browse to and click the node that you want to power on from a recovery point snapshot and click Standby VM from the Actions toolbar.

   The Recovery Point Snapshot dialog opens.

4. On Recovery Point Snapshot dialog, specify a date and time range to locate the recovery point snapshot that you want to use.

   Click Power On VM.

The virtual machine is powered on using the data contained in the recovery point snapshot.

Note: After the virtual machine is powered on, you can be prompted to restart the computer one or more times. This behavior occurs because VMware installs VMware Tools on the virtual machine or Windows Hyper-V installs Integration Services on the virtual machine.

After you power on Virtual Standby virtual machines from recovery point snapshots, you may need to complete the following tasks:

• Activate the Windows operating system that is running on the virtual machine.
• Start CA ARCserve D2D backups on the virtual machine.

  Note: For information about creating and assigning CA ARCserve D2D backup policies using CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager, see the CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager User Guide.

• Update CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby with the host name, IP address, and the login credentials for the virtual machine.
• Assign the node to a policy.

  Note: This task is required only when you want to create recovery point snapshots for the virtual machine that was powered on. For more information, see Assign Nodes to a Policy.