Ad-hoc Virtual Standby to Amazon EC2

This section provides information about how to configure virtual machine settings for creating an Ad-hoc Standby VM to Amazon EC2.

Follow these steps:

1. On the Virtual Machine Settings page, do the following:
• VM Name Prefix: Specify the name of the Standby VM. The name of the source with a prefix is the default name of the Standby VM.
• Default value: VM_
• 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.
• Note: These settings are available to configure only when the auto assign public IP is disabled.
2. Click Finish.

You have successfully created an ad-hoc Standby VM.