Open the Instant Virtual Machine Wizard
You can configure and create an Instant VM from the Instant VM wizard. There are three ways to open the Instant VM wizard:
- From the Node Management
- From the Destination Management: Recovery Point Server
- From the Destination Management: Shared Folder
Open the Wizard from the Node management view
- Click the resources tab.
- From the left pane, navigate to Nodes and click All Nodes.
- All the nodes are displayed on the center pane.
- Right-click a node and select Create an Instant VM.
- The Instant VM wizard opens.
- Note: If a node is not associated with any plan, such node does not have the Create an Instant VM option.
Open the Wizard from the Destination management view
From Destinations: Recovery Point Server
- Click the resources tab.
- From the left pane, navigate to Destinations, and click Recovery Point Servers.
- If you have added any data stores, these data stores are displayed in the center pane.
- Click the data store.
- If you have already backed up data to the RPS, all the source node are listed in the pane.
- Right-click a node and select Create an Instant VM.
- The Instant VM wizard opens.
From Destinations: Shared Folder
- Click the resources tab.
- From the left pane, navigate to Destinations, and click Shared Folders.
- If you have added any shared folders, these shared folders are displayed on the center pane.
- Click a shared folder and select Recovery Point Browser.
- If you have already backed up data to the shared folder, all the source nodes are listed in the pane.
- Right-click a node, and select Create an Instant VM.
- The Instant VM wizard opens.