Add a Virtual Standby to EC2 Task to the Plan

Create a virtual standby to EC2 task so that the backup data is converted to a virtual machine format and a virtual machine is created.

Notes:

• Virtual standby cannot automatically power on recovery point snapshots taken from host-based virtual machine nodes, nodes replicated from a remote recovery point server. Instead, the Source of the Virtual Standby task is replicated to a different Site. You have to manually power on recovery point snapshots for such nodes.
• If you pause the plan, the Virtual Standby job will not start. When you resume the plan again, the Virtual Standby job does not resume automatically. You have to manually run another backup job to start the Virtual Standby job. Also, if the plan is paused the Pause/Resume Virtual Standby option will not be available. If you do not want the virtual machine to start automatically after the plan is paused, then manually pause the heartbeat for the nodes.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Add a Task from the left pane.
2. A new task is added to the left pane.
2. From the Task Type drop-down menu, select Virtual Standby.
3. The Virtual Standby task is added.
3. From the Source tab select one source for the virtual standby task.
4. Click the Virtualization Server tab.
5. Select EC2 as the virtualization type and enter details.

Virtualization Type - EC2

Account Name

Select the existing Amazon AWS account to access AWS EC2. You can also add a new account by clicking Add .

EC2 Region

Select the EC2 region where your cloud proxy is located. Arcserve UDP supports all EC2 global regions and EC2 China region.

Note: The account that you specify must be an administrative account or an account with administrative privileges on the ESX or vCenter Server system.

VSB Cloud Proxy

Specify one EC2 instance in the selected region as the cloud proxy.

Note: The EC2 instance must have Arcserve UDP agent installed.

Username and Password

Specify the credential to login at the VSB cloud proxy.

Protocol

Specify HTTP or HTTPS as the protocol that you want to use for communication between the source Arcserve UDP agent on VSB cloud proxy.

Port

Specify the port that you want to use for data transfer between the source server and the VSB cloud proxy.

Note: As the cloud proxy is used for data transfer, the related ports must be enabled to access inbound in the AWS EC2 security group, including TCP 8014 and 4091.

6. Click the Virtual Machine tab and enter the details for Basic setting, Cloud Storage setting and Networks setting.
7. Amazon AWS EC2
8. Apply the following Virtual Machine options to Amazon AWS EC2:

VM Name Prefix

Specify the prefix that you want to add to the display name for the virtual machine on the AWS EC2.

Default value: UDPVM_

Recovery Point Snapshots

Specify the number of recovery point snapshots (recovery points) for the Virtual Standby machine. The maximum number of recovery point snapshots count is 29 for AWS EC2.

Instance Type

Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to suit different use cases. Instances are virtual servers that can run applications. They have varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity, and provide the flexibility to choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications. For more information about instance types and how they meet your computing needs, view the link.

EBS Volume Types

General Purpose (SSD) volumes can burst to 3000 IOPS, and deliver a consistent baseline of 3 IOPS/GiB. Provisioned IOPs (SSD) volumes can deliver up to 20000 IOPS, and are the best for EBS-optimized instances. Magnetic volumes, previously known as standard volumes, deliver 100 IOPS on an average, and can burst to hundreds of IOPS. For more information about EBS volume types, view the link.

Network

Lets you define the VPC, subnets, the NICs and security group for the virtual standby virtual machine on AWS EC2.

Note: When the auto assign public IP is enabled, due to the limitation of AWS EC2, only one NIC is mapped to AWS EC2 and others are discarded..

Same number of network adapters as source at last backup

Select this option to define how to map the virtual NIC to the network on EC2. Specify this option when the virtual machine contains virtual NICs and a virtual network.

Note: Those settings are available to configure only when the auto assign public IP is disabled.

7. Click Save.
8. The changes are saved and the virtual standby task is automatically deployed to the virtual standby server.

You have successfully created and deployed the virtual standby plan.