Deleting a standby replica or standby VM

Details

When operating a standby replica or standby VM created using vStandby AIP, HyperStandby, or vStandby, please be aware of the following behavior.

Delete operation

When performing the following operation, you will receive a message asking if you want to delete the standby replica or standby VM.  Depending on the operation and the hypervisor, the behavior differs as follows.

vStandby -- When deleting a schedule

vStandby AIP/HyperStandby -- When deleting a profile

When the operation is performed on ESXi guest

When you click [OK] without checking the [Delete standby VM] box, the standby replica will be retained.

When you check the [Delete standby VM] box and click [OK], both the inventory and the created virtual files will be completely deleted.

The same behavior occurs when you right-click on the target ESXi virtual guest in vCenter or the ESXi web browser and select [Delete].

When the operation is performed against Hyper-V guest

When you click [OK] without checking the [Delete standby VM] box, the standby replica is retained.

When you check the [Delete standby VM] box and click [OK], the virtual guest name is deleted from Hyper-V Manager, but the vmdk files remain and must be deleted manually.

This same behavior occurs when you right-click the virtual guest in Hyper-V Manager and select [Delete].

Cautions

1) When you try to delete a running standby replica or standby VM, it will not be deleted.

2) When deleting a standby VM on Hyper-V in vStandby AIP/HyperStandby, you won't see a message about deleting the standby VM. Since vStandby AIP development is complete, no patches will be released. For HyperStandby, a patch will be released to display a deletion message, similar to vStandby.

* ActiveImage Protector 2018 and earlier versions supported vStandby AIP.

* HyperStandby, the successor to vStandby AIP, is included in ActiveImage Protector 2022 and later versions.

Target Products

- vStandby AIP

- ActiveImage Protector 2022

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