How to Create and Manage an Instant Virtual Machine on Amazon EC2

Instant virtual machine (Instant VM) supports creating a virtual machine on Amazon EC2 instantly The IVM on Amazon EC2 has following advantages:

• Provides immediate access to data and applications present in the Arcserve UDP backup sessions.
• Eliminates the downtime associated with a traditional restore or conversion of the backup session to a virtual machine.
• Provides an alternative to create virtual machine on cloud, rather than local.

You can create an Instant VM from the following backup sessions:

• Agent-based Linux backup
• Host-based Agentless backup

What To Do Next?

• Review the Prerequisites
• Create an Instant Virtual Machine Plan on Amazon EC2
• Manage an Instant Virtual Machine Plan on Amazon EC2

You can create an Instant VM from the following backup sessions: On the successful completion of the job, an Instant VM is created on Amazon EC2.