If your Core has continual export set up, the configuration parameters for each virtual export appear as a row on the Virtual Standby page. From here you can view the status of established continual exports, and manage your virtual standby machines. You can add a virtual standby, force export, pause or resume virtual standby, or remove the requirements for continual export from your Core Console.
When a one-time export takes place, the job is listed in the export queue on the Virtual Standby page. During this time, you can pause, resume, or cancel the one-time export operation.
Virtual export to a virtual standby VM does not occur if the VM is powered on.
Complete the steps in this procedure to manage virtual exports.
- On the Rapid Recovery Core Console, in the icon bar, click
(Virtual Standby).
The Virtual Standby page appears. Here you can view two tables of saved export settings. They include the information described in the following table.Table 134: Virtual standby information Column Description Select item For each row in the summary table, you can select the check box to perform actions from the list of menu options preceding the table.
Status indicator Colored spheres in the Status column show the status of virtual standby. If you hover the cursor over the colored circle, the status condition is displayed.
- Green. Virtual standby is successfully configured, is active, and is not paused. The next export is performed immediately following completion of the next snapshot.
- Yellow. Virtual standby pauses, but the parameters are still defined and saved in the Core. However, after a new transfer, the export job will not start automatically and there will be no new exports for this protected machine until the status changes.
Machine Name The name of the source machine. VM Status This column shows for each virtual standby definition whether continual export has been initiated. Destination The virtual machine and path to which data is being exported. Export Type This column shows the type of virtual machine platform for the export, such as vCenter/ESXi, VMware Workstation, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, or Azure. Hypervisor Status This column displays the availability of the hypervisor host. Last Export This column shows the date and time of the last export. If an export has just been added but has not completed, a message displays stating the export has not yet been performed. If an export has failed or was canceled, a corresponding message also displays.
Settings The (More options) drop-down menu lets you perform the following functions:
- Edit. Lets you edit the virtual standby settings.
- Force. Forces a virtual export.
- Pause. Pauses virtual export. Only available when status is active.
- Resume. Resumes virtual export. Only available when status is paused.
- Remove. Removes the requirement for continual export. Does not remove the exported VM most recently updated.
- Start VM. Starts an already-exported virtual machine.
NOTE: New data cannot be written to the virtual standby machine when the VM is started.
- Stop VM. Stops an already-exported virtual machine.
- Network Adapters. Lets you add or modify virtual network adapters.
- Deploy Virtual Machine. For Azure continual export only, this option converts the exported files in your Azure account to a bootable VM.
Table 135: Export queue information Column Description Select item For each row in the summary table, you can select the check box to perform actions from the list of menu options preceding the table. These options include:
- Cancel. Cancel the current one-time virtual export.
- Settings. Lets you update the maximum concurrent exports setting.
Status indicator Shows as a percentage the status of the current export. When no one-time exports are queued, this column has no value. Machine Name The name of the source machine. Destination The virtual machine and path to which data is being exported. Export Type This column shows the type of virtual machine platform for the export, such as vCenter/ESXi, VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, or Azure. Schedule Type Click on to see the schedule type. This shows the type of export as either One-time or Continuous.
- To manage saved export settings, select an export, and then click one of the following:
- Edit. Opens the Virtual Machine Export Wizard to the VM Options page. Here you can change the location of the exported VM, change the version of the VM type, or specify RAM or processors for the export. To immediately start the VM export, select Perform initial one-time export.
- Force. Forces a new export. This option could be helpful when virtual standby is paused and then resumed, which means the export job will restart only after a new transfer. If you do not want to wait for the new transfer, you could force an export.
- Pause. Pauses an active export.
- Resume. Resumes the requirement for continue export at the next scheduled or forced snapshot.
- To remove an export from the system, select the export, and then click Remove.
The export configuration is permanently removed from the system. Removing the virtual standby configuration does not remove any virtual machine exported as a result of the configuration.
- To deploy a VM to Azure, select Deploy Virtual Machine and complete details in the Deploy to Azure Wizard.
Data from the most recent virtual export saved to your Azure account is deployed within your associated Azure account as a bootable VM.
- To manage the number of exports that run at the same time, do the following:
Under Export Queue, click Settings.In the Maximum Concurrent Exports dialog box, enter the number of exports you want to run simultaneously. The default number is 5.Click Save.
- To cancel a one-time or continual export currently listed in the Export Queue, select the export, and then click Cancel.
- To add a new virtual standby export, you can click Add to launch the Export Wizard. Completing the resulting wizard results in a continual export for the selected protected machine. For further information about setting up virtual standby for a specific virtual machine, see one of the following topics:
- Setting up continual export to ESXi
- Setting up continual export to VMware Workstation
- Setting up continual export to Hyper-V
- Setting up continual export to VirtualBox
- Setting up continual export to Azure
