Getting Started With CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby › Deploy Policies

Deploy Policies

After you create a policy, you assign nodes to a policy and then deploy the policy.

The following behavior applies to the policy deployment process:

• The policy deployment process fails under the following conditions:
  • The Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Role is installed on the CA ARCserve D2D source server (node).
  • The CA ARCserve D2D node was imported from CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup. The Windows Hyper-v role is enabled on the Host-based VM backup proxy system and the backup proxy system is specified as the Virtual Standby destination.
• CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby cannot automatically power on virtual machines that were added from CA ARCserve Central Host-Based VM Backup servers. As a result, when you deploy policies that contain a recovery method that is defined as Automatically start the virtual machine to nodes protected by Host-Based VM Backup, Virtual Standby changes the value of the recovery method to Manually start the virtual machine.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Virtual Standby server and open Virtual Standby.

   From the Navigation bar on the home page, click Policies to open the Policies screen.

2. From the Policies list, click the policy that you want to deploy.

   Detailed information about the specified policy appears in the Policy Details tab and the Policy Assignment tab.

3. Click the Policy Details tab to view detailed information about the policy.

   (Optional) Click Edit on the toolbar to edit the current policy settings.

   Note: For more information, see Edit Policies.

4. Click the Policy Assignment tab.

   Detailed information about the nodes that are assigned to the policy appears.

   (Optional) Click Assign and Unassign on the toolbar to assign or unassign nodes to the policy.

   Note: For more information, see Assign Nodes to a Policy or Unassign Nodes from Policies.

5. Click Deploy Now on the toolbar.

   The Deploy Now confirmation message appears.

6. Click OK.

The policy is deployed.

Note: You can also view the policy deployment status for the particular node on the Node screen under the Policy column.