Review the Prerequisites for an Instant Virtual Machine on Amazon EC2

Complete the following prerequisites before creating an Instant VM:

• From the Compatibility Matrix, verify if the VM is supported by Amazon EC2 and UDP.
• Verify that you have at least one Recovery Point Server on local machine, as backup destination.
• Verify that you have at least one Recovery Point Server on Amazon EC2, as replication destination.

• Verify that you have at least one Linux backup server locally, for backup job.
• Verify that you have at least one Linux backup server on Amazon EC2, for the instant VM job.
• Verify that the Amazon EC2 account has enough running instance quota for the Instant VM.

Limitation

The Agent-based Windows, Host-based Agentless Windows Virtual Machine, and Host-based Agentless Linux backup are NOT supported.