Automatic Verification
Before creating an automatic verification job, please make sure you had created a verification lab already, if you haven’t done this yet, please refer to Create Verification Lab to first create a verification lab.
To create a automatic verification job please go to Data Resilience > Verification> Verification page.
Step 1: Verification Source
In this screen, the verification method and data source for verification need to be specified.
In the Verification Method dropdown list, please select Automatic Verification. Then the VM backups will be automatically run in the verification lab, and the system will verify the VM without user intervention. A verification report will be generated and sent to the user’s email automatically.
In the Select Node dropdown list, select a backup node on which the backups are stored.
In the Select Data Source dropdown list, select between Verify by job, Verify by VM, or Verify by Restore Point. If by job, a VM backup job needs to be selected and all VMs in this job will be verified. If by VM, users could select specific VM(s) in the backup job to be verified. If by restore point, users can choose a specific restore point, and only the data from that restore point will be verified.
In the VM List, by expanding a VM, users can configure the VM configurations and verification options.
Under the General tab, users can optionally customize the number of CPUs, cores per CPU socket and the RAM size of the VM to be verified.
Under the Advanced tab, users can configure the verification options. These options are necessary when running automatic verification jobs, if manual verification job, the advanced tab will not show up.
To verify the validity of the VM backups, the verification options including Ping test, Heartbeat test and Screenshot capturing.
In the VM IP field, please specify the IP of the VM if VMware Tools is not installed. If it has VMware Tools installed, then Vinchin backup server can obtain the VM IP and this field can be left blank.
In the Verification Time field, it defines the verification time of this VM after it’s powered on. The verification operations will be done within the given time (in seconds). After that the verification will timeout.
Step 2: Verification Lab
In this screen, please select a verification lab from the Select Verification Lab dropdown list.
Step 3: Verification Strategy
For an Automatic Verification job, the Verification Method can be configured between Verify Now and Verify as Scheduled.
If verify now, the verification will start right after the job is created, once done, the verification job status will be changed to pending, it will not run again until users manually start it when needed.
If verify as scheduled, users have to configure the time schedule of running the verification regularly on daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Step 4: Review & Confirm
After completing the above-mentioned settings, you are able to review and confirm all the settings of the verification job to be created. By clicking on Submit to confirm creating the verification job.