Users Guide

NOTE: If the selected volumes are larger than the appropriate maximum allocations supported by the application as
indicated below, or exceed the amount of space available, you will receive an error.
● For VHDX disk format, your selected volumes should be no larger than 64 TB.
● For VHD disk format, your selected volumes should be no larger than 2040 GB.
19. On the Volumes page, click Finish to complete the wizard and to start the export.
NOTE: You can monitor the status and progress of the export by viewing the Virtual Standby or Events pages.
Performing a continual (Virtual Standby) Hyper-V export
Complete the steps in this procedure to perform a continual export to a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) using Rapid Recovery.
1. In the Rapid Recovery Core Console, do one of the following:
● From the Core Console, in the button bar, click the Restore drop-down menu, and then select VM Export.
a. In the Virtual Machine Export Wizard, select Continuous (Virtual Standby).
b. Click Next.
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From the Core Console, in the icon bar, click
(Virtual Standby).
○ On the Virtual Standby page, click Add to launch the Virtual Machine Export Wizard.
2. On the Machines page of the Virtual Machine Export Wizard, select the protected machine that you want to export.
3. Click Next.
4. On the Recovery Points page, select the recovery point that you want to use for the export.
5. Click Next.
6. On the Destination page, in the Export to a Virtual Machine drop-down menu, select Hyper-V, and then do one of the
following:
● To export to a local machine with the Hyper-V role assigned, click Use local machine.
● To indicate that the Hyper-V server is located on a remote machine, click Remote host, and then enter the parameters
for the remote host as described in the following table.
Table 124. Remote host information
Text Box Description
Host Name Enter an IP address or host name for the Hyper-V server. It represents the IP address or host name
of the remote Hyper-V server.
Port Enter a port number for the machine. It represents the port through which the Core communicates
with this machine.
User name Enter the user name for the user with administrative privileges for the workstation with the Hyper-
V server. It is used to specify the logon credentials for the virtual machine.
Password Enter the password for the user account with administrative privileges on the workstation with
Hyper-V server. It is used to specify the logon credentials for the virtual machine.
7. Click Next.
8. On the Virtual Machines Options page, in the VM Machine Location text box, enter the path for the virtual machine; for
example, D:\export. This is used to identify the location of the virtual machine.
NOTE:
You need to specify the virtual machine location for both local and remote Hyper-V servers. The path should be
a valid local path for the Hyper-V server. Non-existent directories are automatically created. You should not attempt to
create them manually. Export to shared folders (for example, to \\data\share) is not permitted.
9. In the Virtual Machine Name text box, enter the name for the virtual machine.
The name you enter appears in the list of virtual machines in the Hyper-V Manager console.
10. To specify memory usage, click one of the following:
● Use the same amount of RAM as the source machine. Select this option to identify that the RAM use is identical
between the virtual and source machines.
● Use a specific amount of RAM. Select this option if you want to specify the amount of RAM in MB.
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