Using AppAssure 5 Live Recovery instant recovery technology, you can instantly recover or restore data to your physical machines or to virtual machines from stored recovery points of Windows machines. This article serves as a guide for users seeking to perform a continuous export for VMware Workstation.
If you have replication set up between two cores (source and target), you can only export data from the target core after the initial replication is complete.
NOTE: Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 operating systems that are booted from FAT32 EFI partitions are not available for protection or recovery, nor are Resilient File System (ReFS) volumes. For details, see the AppAssure 5 Deployment Guide.
NOTE: Virtual Standby is not supported for Linux machines if the core is older than 5.4.2.
AppAssure 5 supports both a one-time export or continuous export (to support virtual standby) of Windows backup information to a virtual machine. Exporting your data to a virtual standby machine provides you with a high availability copy of the data. If a protected machine goes down, you can boot up the virtual machine to then perform recovery.
You create a virtual standby by continuously exporting protected data from your Windows machine to a virtual machine (VMware, ESXi, and Hyper-V). When you export to a virtual machine, all of the backup data from a recovery point as well as the parameters defined for the protection schedule for your machine will be exported.
NOTE: The virtual machine to which you are exporting must be a licensed version of ESXi, VMWare Workstation, or Hyper-V and not the trial or free versions.
To perform a continuous (virtual standby) VMware Workstation export
1. In the AppAssure 5 Core Console, click the Machines tab, and then do the following:
2. Click Continuous (Virtual Standby) in the Select Export Type dialog box and click Next.
3. Select a recovery point to export and then click Next.
4. Enter the parameters for accessing the virtual machine as described in the following table.
| Text Box | Option |
| Target Path | Specify the path of the local folder or network share on which to create the virtual machine.NOTE: If you specified a network share path, you will need to enter valid logon credentials for an account that is registered on the target machine. The account must have read and write permissions to the network share. |
| User Name | Enter the logon credentials for the virtual machine.
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| Password | Enter the logon credentials for the virtual machine.
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5. In the Export Volumes pane, select the volumes to export, for example, C:\ and D:\.
6. In the Options pane, enter the information for the virtual machine and memory usage as described in the following table.
| Text Box | Option |
| Virtual Machine | Enter a name for the virtual machine being created, for example, VM-0A1B2C3D4NOTE: The default name is the name of the source machine. |
| Memory | Specify the memory for the virtual machine. You can choose from the following options.
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7. Click Perform initial ad-hoc export to test the export of data.
8. Click Save.
