Review the Prerequisites for an Instant Virtual Machine

Complete the following prerequisites before creating an Instant VM:

Verify that you have at least one Arcserve UDP backup.
Verify that the Arcserve UDP Agents are already installed on the Recovery Server.
Verify that the NFS feature is installed on the Recovery Server, if the destination hypervisor is a VMware vCenter/ESX(i) server.
Verify that the operating system of the Recovery Server is 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 or later.
Verify that the Recovery Server has enough space for the Instant VM.

Note: Machine can boot up. NIC(s) are configured according to the user input on UI.

Consideration

The Migrate InstantVM between nodes feature is not supported when an Instant VM is started in a Hyper-V cluster.
When you create an Instant VM from a Linux agent backup, the settings of a virtual machine created by Instant VM cannot be modified using a vSphere client. You must use the vSphere web client to modify the virtual machine settings.
If the number of NFS datastore reaches the maximum number of NFS mounts on an ESXi/ESX host and you create an Instant VM, then Arcserve UDP fails to create the NFS datastore. To increase the maximum number of NFS mounts on the ESXi/ESX host, see the VMware KB article.
If recovery point is from agentless backup, and destination hypervisor is vsphere ESX/VC, the NFS server is required on the Linux Backup Server machine.
If target hypervisor is MS Hyper-V, command net must be available on the Linux Backup Server. This command may be installed by samba client packages.
The virtual machine does not work in the following situations:

Recovery server reboots.
Recovery server crashes.
The network connection between recovery server and backup destination (Data store or shared folder) disconnects.