Protect Virtual Standby Machines After it is Powered On
After a virtual standby machine is powered on (either manually or automatically), the Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) backup job and the virtual standby job will not run as they were scheduled. You have to manually configure the virtual standby machine to protect it.
Follow these steps:
- Modify the VM Name Prefix in the Virtual Standby task.
- When you power on virtual standby machines, the application defines the virtual machine names of the powered on virtual machines as the concatenation of the VM Name Prefix option specified in the Virtual Standby task and the host name of the source node.
- Example:
- VM Name Prefix: AA_
- Host name of the source node: Server1
- Virtual machine name of the virtual standby machine: AA_Server1
- After the virtual standby machines are powered on, virtual machine name conflicts can occur when you do not modify the VM Name Prefix in the Virtual Standby task. Problems of this type occur when the source nodes and the virtual standby machines reside on the same hypervisor.
- If necessary, you can update other Virtual Standby task settings. Optionally, you can create a new Virtual Standby task to protect the Virtual Standby virtual machine.
- After you deploy the plan to the virtual standby machine, resume the Virtual Standby job.
- For more information, see Pause and Resume Virtual Standby Jobs.
- After you deploy the plan, log in to Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) on the virtual standby machine and schedule a repeat method for the Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) backup job.
- For more information, see the Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) User Guide.