Add a Virtual Standby to Microsoft Azure Task to the Policy

Create a virtual standby task so that the backup data is converted to a virtual machine format and a virtual machine is created. The virtual standby feature also monitors the heartbeat of the source so that when the source is down, the virtual machine immediately takes over as the source.

This section provides information about how to add a Virtual Standby task to a policy.

Follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Protect > Policies.
2. Click the policy name that you have already created.
3. On the Tasks tab, to add a secondary task, click the add (+) symbol on the RPS section, and then click the newly added RPS section.
4. On the What to protect tab, select Virtual Standby from the Activity Type drop-down list.
5. On the Source tab, from the Virtual Standby Source drop-down list, select a source and then go to the Virtualization Server tab.
6. On the Virtualization Server tab, from the Target drop-down list, select target as needed, and then do the following:
1. From the Resource Group drop-down list, select a resource group. You must have a resource group in Azure. For instructions, see Resource group in Azure in the Microsoft documentation.
2. From the Region drop-down list, select the Azure region where want your standby VM to be located. For more information about Region, see Regions in Azure.
3. For Monitor, specify the host name of the server that monitors the status of the source server, and then click Connect.

Notes:

• You can use any physical computer or virtual machine as a monitor server.
• You cannot use the backup source server as a monitor server.
• Monitor server configuration is not required if the sources are copied from a remote recovery point server or the Source of the Virtual Standby task is the one copied to a different Site.
4. On the Connect dialog, do the following, and then click Save:
• Username: Specify the user name to log into the monitoring system.
• Password: Specify the password for the user name to log into the monitoring system.
• Port: Specify the port that you want to use for data transfer between the Arcserve Cloud Console and the monitoring server. The default port value is 8014.
7. After the monitor server is successfully connected, click the Virtual Machine tab.
8. On the Virtual Machine tab, do the following:
• VM Name Prefix: Specify the prefix that you want to add to the display name for the virtual machine on the Azure.
• Default value: VM_
• Recovery Point Snapshots: Specify the number of recovery point snapshots (recovery points) for the standby virtual machine. The maximum number of recovery point snapshots count is 29 for Azure.
• Default value: 5
• Combine all Unconverted Sessions into a Single Recovery Point Snapshot: Specify whether to combine all unconverted sessions into a single recovery point snapshot when next scheduled VSB job takes place.
• Default: Selected
• Virtual Machine Sizes: Microsoft Azure provides a wide selection of virtual machine sizes optimized to suit different use cases. These virtual machines have different CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity combinations. For more information about virtual machine sizes and how they meet your computing needs, see Sizes for Windows virtual machine in Azure.
• Note: Microsoft Azure supports both Generation 1 and Generation 2 VMs. Generation 1 (V1) VMs refer to MBR based source machines and Generation 2 (V2) VMs refer to UEFI based source machines.
• BIOS boot sources: From the drop-down list, select the virtual machine sizes for the BIOS boot sources as needed.
• UEFI boot sources: From the drop-down list, select the virtual machine sizes for the UEFI boot sources as needed.
• Storage Account Name: Select a Storage Account Name. You must have a Storage Account Name in Azure. For Storage Account kind, select Storage (general purpose v1) or StorageV2 (general purpose v2). For more information, see Storage account in Azure in the Microsoft documentation.
• Virtual Network: Select a Virtual Network. You must have a Virtual Network in Azure. For more information, see Virtual Network in Azure in the Microsoft documentation.
• Subnet: Select a Subnet according to selected Virtual Network. You must have a Subnet in Azure. For more information, see Subnet in Azure in the Microsoft documentation.
• Network Security Group: Select a Network Security Group. You must have a Network Security Group in Azure. Configure the security group rules to open the related ports, including 3389 for remote desktop, 8014, 8015 for Arcserve UDP communication. For instructions, see Network Security Group in the Microsoft documentation.
• Enable auto assign Public IP: When the auto assign public IP is enabled, the public IP gets automatically assigned to the Standby VM when it starts in Azure.
9. On the Additional Settings tab, do the following:
• Heartbeat Properties:
• Timeout: Specify the time that the monitor server must wait for a heartbeat before it powers on a recovery point snapshot.
• Frequency: Specify the frequency that the source server communicates heartbeats to the monitor server.
• Example: The Timeout value specified is 60. The Frequency value specified is 10. The source server will communicate heartbeats in 10-second intervals. If the monitoring server does not detect a heartbeat within 60 seconds of the last heartbeat that was detected, the monitor server powers on a virtual machine using the latest recovery point snapshot.

You have successfully created the virtual standby task for Microsoft Azure.