How to Create and Restore Arcserve Instant VM Step by Step

Two Arcserve Instant Recovery Options for VMs

Arcserve UDP offers two immediate recovery options: Instant Virtual Machine (IVM) and Virtual Standby (VSB).

Instant Virtual Machine (IVM):

• Creates a virtual machine directly from a deduplicated backup repository.
• Eliminates the need for pre-data conversion and downtime.
• Provides instant access to applications and data.

Virtual Standby (VSB):

• Pre-populates virtual machine disks after each incremental backup.
• Converts recovery points to a compatible virtual disk format.
• Supports recovery to various hypervisors (vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV) and cloud platforms (Google, AWS, Azure).
• Restored VMs perform as well as production VMs.

Both IVM and VSB offer rapid recovery capabilities, but VSB provides additional flexibility with pre-populated disks and broader recovery options.

How to Create and Restore Arcserve Instant VM

✨Create an Arcserve Instant Virtual Machine

1. Access to Console, and click resources > Nodes.

2. Click Create an Instant VM to create instant virtual machines for SharePoint environment machine.

3. Specify a location on VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V to host the instant VM.

4. Specify a machine to run instant VM.

5. Configure instant VM hardware and system settings. And create a new Virtual Network as an isolate network environment for SharePoint recovery. Use the default configuration of TCP/IP Settings "Source:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX".

6. Click Finish.

7. The Boot VM dialog opens. Select one of the following options:

• Boot Now： Submits a job to create the Instant VM. After the VM is created, it automatically starts the VM.
• Boot Later: Creates an Instant VM. You have to manually start the VM. You can start the VM after the Instant VM job is complete.
• Cancel: Closes the Create VM dialog without creating any VM. You are returned to the Create VM page.

The Instant VM job is successfully created.

✨Restore an Instant Virtual Machine

1. From the select the Type of Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) wizard screen, select the Recover from a virtual machine and select the Source is on a VMware machine option.

2. The Select a Recovery Point screen is displayed with the ESX/VC Credentials dialog.

3. Enter the credential information and click OK. The Select a Recovery Point screen is displayed.

4. Select the virtual machine which contains recovery points for your backup image.

5. Select the virtual machine backup session (recovery point snapshots) that you want to recover.

6. Verify this is the recovery point that you want to restore and click Next.

• Select Express Mode if you want minimal interaction during the recovery process.
• Select Advanced Mode if you want to customize the recovery process.

In addition to Arcserve Instant VM Recovery, another powerful tool to ensure fast and reliable virtual machine (VM) recovery is AOMEI Cyber Backup. While Arcserve provides robust recovery features, AOMEI Cyber Backup can complement this by offering streamlined backup and disaster recovery.

An Efficient Instant VM Backup and Recovery Solution

AOMEI Cyber Backup is an enterprise-grade solution that offers a wide range of backup and recovery options for both physical and virtual environments. Similar to Arcserve, AOMEI Cyber Backup allows for instant VM recovery and allows you to quickly mount VM backups directly from the backup storage, essentially running the VM from the backup copy while the original VM is being restored, enabling businesses to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity.

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Steps to Perform Instant VM Backup and Recovery Safely

* Note: The instant restore feature is applicable to backup points of ESXi virtual machines. AOMEI Cyber Backup must be installed on Windows Server 2012 or higher versions of the operating system.
The backup points of the virtual machine must be stored on the local disk.

Step 1. Create VMware ESXi VMs Backup and then start VM instant recovery.

Step 2. Create New Instant Restore as following:

✔ Click "Task" > "Instant Recovery" > "New Instant Recovery". Here we take "Restore from task" for an example.

✔ Select Source and choose the virtual machine and backup version.

✔ Select the device to be restored to in "Restore to". Choose the target device.

✔ Set the hardware settings for the new virtual machine, such as CPU quantity, CPU Cores and memory size.

✔ Enter a name for the new virtual machine.

✔ Click "Start Restore" to start the instant restore.

After creating vm instant recovery, click Start Migration on details page to return backup to production environment.

Conclusion

When a VM fails or a system disaster occurs, Arcserve instant VM recovery allows you to ensure that business operations continue without significant interruption.