Protecting Full Systems

Full System scenarios let you protect or move a physical system to a virtual machine. With Full System scenarios, you can switch a physical machine over to a virtual server manually or automatically, perform assured recovery testing, or set bookmarks that can be used as restore points to either the original machine, or to a new machine.

Arcserve RHA supports dynamic disks including Simple, Striped, Mirrored, Spanned, and RAID-5 volumes. You can have both master and replica as dynamic disks. Dynamic disks let you create volumes that span multiple disks.

Note: When you create a bookmark, RHA engine calls the application VSS writer to create an application consistent snapshot on the master. RHA has four parameters (EnableVSSWriters, ExcludedWriterList, IncludedWriterList, StartWriterServicesList) in the ws_rep.cfg file to customize how the RHA engine calls the application VSS writer to create the snapshot.

This section contains the following topics:

How Full System Scenarios Work

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Support for Full System Scenarios

Windows 2012 Support

Configuring Master and Replica for Full System Scenarios

Create Full System Scenarios

Creating a Full System Scenario Using the Template with Predefined Replica Details

Create Full System Scenarios for Hyper-V Platform

Creating a Full System Cascade Scenario to Add Multiple Replicas

Configure the Web Proxy to Connect to the Cloud Service

Additional Properties for Full System Scenarios

Configure Additional Properties in Full System EC2 Scenarios