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Live mode recommendations for a virtual failover client running on a Recovery Series appliance

Because it uses system resources such as processors, memory, and storage and impacts performance of backups, archiving, replication, deduplication and other functions, a virtual failover client (VFC) in live mode should run on a Recovery Series appliance for only a short period of time. The appliance begins sending alerts after a live VFC has been running for 14 days.

Recover the client to new hardware as soon as possible using Unitrends bare metal recovery, as described in Windows Bare Metal Protection. Data from the live VFC is protected by the backup schedule for the original client, and you will need to restore it after recovering the client to new hardware. For details, see Restore Overview. After restoring the VFC’s data to the recovered client, you should delete the VFC from the appliance to free the system resources used by the VFC. For instructions, see Deleting a virtual failover client.