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The following diagram shows a typical deployment for exporting data to a virtual
machine.
Figure 23. Virtual standby deployment
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.
Dynamic and Basic Volumes Support Limitations
AppAssure 4.x and 5.x both support taking snapshots of all dynamic and basic
volumes. AppAssure 4.x and 5.x also support exporting simple dynamic volumes that
are on a single physical disk. As their name implies, simple dynamic volumes are not
striped, mirrored or spanned volumes.
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.