Review the Prerequisites and Considerations

Verify that you have completed the following prerequisite tasks:

• Log into the Console.

• Installed the server component and created data stores, if you want to store the backup data to recovery point servers.
• You have a valid recovery point to create an Instant Virtual Machine or Instant Virtual Disk. You can select the recovery points from one of the following tasks:
  • Backup, Agent-based Windows
  • Backup, Host-Based Agentless
  • Replicate
  • Backup, Office 365 Exchange Online
  • Backup, Files on UNC Path
• Verify that the Arcserve UDP Agents are already installed on the Proxy Server.
• Verify that the operating system of the Proxy Server is 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher version.

Note: For UNC path backup plan and Office 365 Exchange Online backup plan, the Assured Recovery proxy server should be Windows 2012 or higher version.

• Verify that the Proxy Server has enough space for the Instant Virtual Machine or Instant Virtual Disk.

Note: The necessary space highly depends on the RAM size that you configured in AR task for AR IVM test type. For each IVM, the hypervisor needs maximum to same size of the RAM size to hold the temporary data in memory swap files. For example, if you have 5 nodes in the same plan with AR-IVM task, and the VM memory size is set to 4GB, then you need at least 5*4= 20GB free size to hold the memory swap files. In addition, you may need free size of 10MB to hold the VM configuration files.