Add a Virtual Standby Task to the Plan

Create a Virtual Standby to Azure 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 node so that when the source node is down, the virtual machine immediately takes over as the source node.

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Follow these steps:

  1. Click Add a Task from the left pane.
  2. A new task is added to the left pane.
  3. From the Task Type drop-down menu, select Virtual Standby.
  4. The Virtual Standby task is added.
  5. From the Source tab select one source for the Virtual Standby task.
  6. Click the Virtualization Server tab and enter the virtualization server and monitoring server details.

    7. Virtualization Type

    Specify Azure as the Virtualization Type.

    Account Name

    Select an existing Azure account or click Add to create an account.

    For more information, see how to add a cloud account.

    Resource Group

    Select an existing resource group or click Add to create a resource group.

    For more information, see Resource group in Azure.

    Region

    Select the region where you want the standby VM to operate in Azure. For more information, see Regions in Azure.

    Monitor

    Specify the host name of the server that monitors the status of the source server.

    Notes:

    User Name

    Specify the user name to log into the monitoring system.

    Password

    Specify the password for the user name to log into the monitoring system.

    Protocol

    Specify HTTP or HTTPS as the protocol that you want to use for communication between the Arcserve UDP and the monitoring server.

    Port

    Specify the port that you want to use for data transfer between Arcserve UDP and monitoring server.

  7. Click the Virtual Machine tab and enter the details for VM Basic Settings, VM DataStore for VMware, VM path for Hyper-V, and VM Network.

    8. VM Name Prefix

    Specify a prefix that you want to add to the display name of virtual machine on Azure.

    Default value: UDPVM_

    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.

    Default value: 5

    Combine all unconverted sessions into a single recovery point snapshot

    Select if you want to combine all unconverted sessions into a single recovery point snapshot when next scheduled VSB job takes place.

    Default: Selected

    Virtual Machine Size

    Microsoft Azure provides a wide selection of Virtual Machine Sizes optimized to suit different use cases. They have varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity. For more information about Virtual Machine Size and how they meet your computing needs, view Sizes of Windows virtual machine in Azure.

    Storage Account Name

    Select an existing Storage Account Name or create a Storage Account in Azure. When you create Storage Account in Azure, you must specify one of the following as Account Kind

    For more information, see Storage account in Azure.

    Virtual Network

    Select an existing Virtual Network or create a Virtual Network in Azure. For more information, see Virtual Network in Azure.

    Subnet

    Select an existing Virtual Network Subnet based on the selected Virtual Network or add a Subnet in Azure. For more information, see Add Subnet in Azure.

    Network Security Group

    Select an existing Network Security Group or create 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 more information, see Network Security Group.

    Enable auto assign Public IP

    Select to assign the public IP to Standby VM automatically when the standby VM starts in Azure.

  8. Click the Advanced tab and provide the following details:

    9. Automatically start the Virtual Machine

    Specify if you want to start the virtual machine automatically.

    Note: This option is not available for host-based virtual machine nodes and nodes replicated from a remote recovery point server and the Source of the Virtual Standby task is the one replicated to a different Site. The Virtual Standby Source is the replicate task and the replication target RPS server inside Azure.

    Timeout

    Specify the time that the monitor server must wait for a heartbeat before a recovery point snapshot is powered on .

    Frequency

    Specify the frequency that the source server communicates the heartbeats to the monitor server.

    Example: The Timeout value specified is 60. The Frequency value specified is 10. The source server communicates 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.

    Customize job parameters

    You can customize job parameters for the following options:

    Enable Email Alerts

    Select to enable email alerts. You receive email alerts based on the settings that you provide.

  9. Click Save.
  10. The changes are saved and the Virtual Standby task is automatically deployed to the Virtual Standby server.
  11. Note: When the Virtual Standby task is complete, the virtual machine standby volume is created. The standby virtual machine is created only after the virtual machine is powered on from Arcserve UDP.

You have successfully created and deployed the Virtual Standby to Azure plan.