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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.
The following diagram shows a typical deployment for exporting data to a virtual machine.
Figure 9. Exporting data to a virtual machine
You create a virtual standby by continuously exporting protected data from your Windows machine to a
virtual machine. 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.
You can perform virtual export of recovery points for your protected Windows or Linux machines to
VMware, ESXi, Hyper-V, and Oracle VirtualBox.
NOTE: The Appliance tab displays all the virtual machines but only supports the management of
Hyper-V and ESXi virtual machines. To manage the other virtual machines use the hypervisor
management tools.
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.
Dynamic and basic volumes support limitations
AppAssure supports taking snapshots of all dynamic and basic volumes. AppAssure also supports
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. Non-simple dynamic volumes have
arbitrary disk geometries that cannot be fully interpreted and therefore cannot be exported. AppAssure
has the ability to export complex or non-simple dynamic volumes.
AppAssure version 5.3.1.60393 added a check box in the user interface informing you that exports are
restricted to simple dynamic volumes. Before the user interface changed with this version, the option of
exporting complex or non-simple dynamic disks would have appeared to have been an option. If you
attempted to export these disks, the export job would fail.
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