Add a Virtual Standby to EC2 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 EC2 Region drop-down list, select the EC2 region where your cloud proxy is located. Arcserve Cloud Console supports all the EC2 global regions and EC2 China region.
2. From the Cloud Proxy drop-down list, select the EC2 instance in the selected region as the cloud proxy, and then click Connect.
3. Note: The EC2 instance must have Arcserve UDP agent installed.
3. On the Connect dialog, do the following, and then click Save:
• Username: Specify the user name to log into the VSB cloud proxy.
• Password: Specify the password for the user name to log into the VSB cloud proxy.
• Port: Specify the port that you want to use for data transfer between the source server and the VSB cloud proxy. The default port value is 8014.
• Note: As the cloud proxy is used for data transfer, the related ports must be enabled to access inbound in the AWS EC2 security group, including TCP 8014 and 4091.
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 AWS EC2.
• Default value: VM_
• Recovery Point Snapshots: Specify the number of recovery point snapshots (recovery points) for the Virtual Standby machine. The maximum number of recovery point snapshots count is 29 for AWS EC2.
• 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
• Instance Type: Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to suit different use cases. Instances are virtual servers that can run applications. They have varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity, and provide the flexibility to choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications. For more information about instance types and how they meet your computing needs, see the link.
• EBS Volume Types: General Purpose (SSD) volumes can burst to 3000 IOPS, and deliver a consistent baseline of 3 IOPS/GiB. Provisioned IOPs (SSD) volumes can deliver up to 20000 IOPS, and are the best for EBS-optimized instances. Magnetic volumes, previously known as standard volumes, deliver 100 IOPS on an average, and can burst to hundreds of IOPS. For more information about EBS volume types, see the link.
• Network: Lets you define the VPC, subnets, the NICs and security group for the virtual standby virtual machine on AWS EC2.
• Subnet: Specifies the subnet existing on the Amazon EC2 account. Select a subnet according to selected Virtual Network.
• Security Group: Specifies the security group. You can select multiple groups. if you do not select, automatically creates a new security group.
• Enable Auto Assign Public IP: Select this check box to enable the auto assign public IP.
• Note: When the auto assign public IP is enabled, due to the limitation of AWS EC2, only one NIC is mapped to AWS EC2 and others are discarded.
• Same number of Network adapters as Source at Last Backup: Select this option to define how to map the virtual NIC to the network on EC2. Specify this option when the virtual machine contains virtual NICs and a virtual network.
• Adapter Type: From the drop-down list, select the type of network adapter as needed.
9. Note: These settings are available to configure only when the auto assign public IP is disabled.

You have successfully created the virtual standby task for Amazon EC2.