Protecting Full Systems

Full System scenarios let you protect or move a physical system to a virtual machine. With Full System scenarios, you can switch a physical machine over to a virtual server manually or automatically, perform assured recovery testing, or set bookmarks that can be used as restore points to either the original machine, or to a new machine.

Note: When you create a bookmark, RHA engine calls the application VSS writer to create an application consistent snapshot on the master. RHA has four parameters (EnableVSSWriters, ExcludedWriterList, IncludedWriterList, StartWriterServicesList) in the ws_rep.cfg file to customize how the RHA engine calls the application VSS writer to create the snapshot.

This section contains the following topics:

How Full System Scenarios Work

Configuring Master and Replica for Full System Scenarios

Create Full System Scenarios

Create Full System Scenarios for Hyper-V Platform

Configure the Web Proxy to Connect to the Cloud Service

Additional Properties for Full System Scenarios

Configure Additional Properties in Full System-to-ESX Scenarios

Configure Additional Properties in Full System EC2 Scenarios

Redirection Methods for Full System Scenarios

Running a Full System HA Scenario

Operations on a Virtual Machine