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Recover using a VMware Virtual Standby VM

The Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) provides the capability to perform Bare Metal Recovery for virtual-to-physical (V2P) machines. This feature lets you perform virtual-to-physical recovery from the latest state of a standby virtual machine and helps you reduce the loss of your production machine.

Follow these steps:

1. From the select the Type of Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) wizard screen, select the Recover from a Virtual Standby VM and select the Source is on a VMware machine option.

   Use this option to perform a virtual-to-physical restore from a virtual standby VM. The term virtual-to-physical refers to the migration of an operating system (OS), application programs and data from a virtual machine or disk partition to a computer's main hard disk. The target can be a single computer or multiple computers.

   

2. Click Next.

   The Select a Recovery Point screen is displayed with the ESX/VC Credentials dialog.

   

3. Enter the credential information and click OK.

   Note: If you are connecting to a vCenter, you do not need an Administrator permission at the vCenter Server level but you must have an Administrator permission at the Datacenter level. In addition, you must have the following permissions at the vCenter Server level:

   • Global, DisableMethods and EnableMethods
   • Global, License

   The Select a Recovery Point screen is displayed.

   The Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) then retrieves all the recovery point snapshots for the selected VMware server and displays the VMware Server in the left pane, with a listing of all the virtual machines that are hosted on the selected VMware server.

   

4. Select the virtual machine which contains recovery points for your backup image.

   The backup sessions (recovery point snapshots) for the selected virtual machine are displayed.

   

5. Select the virtual machine backup session (recovery point snapshots) that you want to recover.

   The corresponding details for the selected recovery point snapshot (virtual machine name, backup session name, backed up volumes, backed up dynamic disks) are displayed in the right pane.

   In addition to selecting one of the listed recovery points, you also have the option to select the Current State or the Latest State recovery point.

   • If the virtual machine that you are recovering from is powered on, the Current State recovery point is displayed.

     If you select the Current State recovery point, verify the Arcserve UDP Agent service is started on the standby virtual machine.

   • If the virtual machine that you are recovering from is powered off, the Latest State recovery point is displayed.

     If you select the Latest State recovery point, an error message will be displayed to inform you that the recovery point you are recovering from is the Latest (and not the Current) state and requesting that you start the virtual machine before continuing with the recovery process.

6. Verify this is the recovery point that you want to restore and click Next.

   A BMR wizard screen is displayed with the available recovery mode options.

   

   The available options are Advanced Mode and Express Mode.

   • Select Express Mode if you want minimal interaction during the recovery process. For more information see, Perform BMR in Express Mode.
   • Select Advanced Mode if you want to customize the recovery process. For more information, see Perform BMR in Advanced Mode.

   Default: Express Mode.