How to Create a Virtual Standby to AWS EC2 Plan

The virtual standby converts the recovery points to virtual machine formats on specified cloud 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 Amazon AWS EC2 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 is skipped.

What To Do Next?

1. Review the Prerequisites and Considerations
2. Create a Plan with a Backup Task
3. Add a Virtual Standby to EC2 Task to the Plan
4. (Optional) Run the Virtual Standby to EC2 Task Manually
5. Pause and Resume the Virtual Standby Job
6. Verify the Plan