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Power on Virtual Standby Machines from Hyper-V Manager

When you want to power-on Virtual Standby virtual machines manually, the best practice is to power on the virtual machines from the Standby VM dialog of Arcserve UDP server. For more information, see Power on Virtual Standby Virtual Machines from Recovery Point Snapshots. However, if you want to start the Virtual Standby virtual machines from the Hyper-V server, you can do so using Hyper-V Manager.

Note: The Hyper-V Manager lets you access the recovery point snapshots that virtual standby created to protect the node. You should not delete the snapshots. When you delete the snapshots, the relationship between the data contained in the snapshots becomes inconsistent the next time a Virtual Standby job runs. With inconsistent data, you cannot power on Virtual Standby virtual machines properly.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Hyper-V server that is monitoring the nodes that you are protecting.
2. Start Hyper-V Manager by doing the following:
   1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

      Hyper-V Manager opens.

   2. From the Hyper-V Manager directory tree, expand Hyper-V Manager and click the Hyper-V server containing the virtual machine that you want to power on.

      The virtual machines associated with the specified Hyper-V server display in the Virtual Machines list in the center pane.

3. Perform one of the following tasks:
   • To power on the virtual machine using the latest snapshot: In the Virtual Machines list, right-click the virtual machine that you want to power on and click Start on the pop-up menu.
   • To power on the virtual machine using an older snapshot:
     1. In the Virtual Machines list, click the virtual machine that you want to power on.

        The snapshots associated with the virtual machine display in the Snapshots list.

     2. Right-click the snapshot that you want to use to power on the virtual machine and click Apply on the pop-up menu.

        The Apply Snapshot dialog opens.

     3. Click Apply.
     4. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click the virtual machine that you want to power on and click Start on the pop-up menu.

   The virtual standby machine is powered on.

If necessary, you can back up the virtual machines and create recovery point snapshots after you power on the virtual machine.