Review the Prerequisites for an Instant Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure

Complete the following prerequisites before creating an Instant VM:

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

• Verify that you have at least one Linux backup server locally, for the backup job.
• Verify that you have at least one Linux backup server on Microsoft Azure, for the instant VM job.
• Verify that a Microsoft Azure account has been added.

Limitation

• Linux machines booted with UEFI are NOT supported.
• Linux machines having Btrfs file system across multiple disks are NOT supported.