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How to Create a Virtual Standby Plan

The virtual standby converts the recovery points to virtual machine formats and prepares a snapshot to easily recover your data when needed. This feature provides the high availability capability also and ensures that the virtual machine can take over immediately when the source machine fails. The standby virtual machine is created by converting the recovery points to an VMware or a Hyper-V virtual machine format.

Note: The virtual standby task runs only if the backup task creates a valid recovery point snapshot. If the backup task fails, then the virtual standby task gets skipped.

The following diagram illustrates the process to create a virtual standby plan.

What To Do Next?

1. Review the Prerequisites and Considerations
2. Create a Plan with a Backup Task
3. Add a Virtual Standby Task to the Plan
4. (Optional) Run the Virtual Standby Job Manually
5. Pause and Resume the Heartbeat
6. Pause and Resume the Virtual Standby Job
7. Verify the Plan
8. Applying Best Practices