Processing for Using Resources from an Admin Account

When you configure a hypervisor to use admin account resources, most operations that are initiated from the tenant hypervisor use resources from the admin account and do most of the processing in the admin account, with minimal effect on the production account. When using resources from an admin account, you must add JSON permissions to both admin and tenant accounts.

Streaming Backup Operations

1. On the production account:

   1. Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the source instance.

   2. Share the AMI to the admin account.

2. On the admin account:

   1. Create volumes from the AMI.

   2. Mount volumes to the access node, create an instance, and back up the instance and volumes.

   3. Detach the volumes and then delete them.

   4. Delete the AMI.

HotAdd Restore Operations

1. On the admin account:

   1. Create empty volumes.

   2. Mount the volumes to the access node and create an instance.

   3. Restore data.

   4. Detach the volumes.

   5. Create a snapshot of the volumes, and then delete the volumes.

   6. Share snapshots to the production account.

2. On the production account:

   1. Create volumes from snapshots.

   2. Create the instance and attach the volumes.

Import Restore Operations

1. On the admin account:

   1. Initialize the cloud file system.

   2. Mount the Amazon S3 folder to the access node.

   3. Share the bucket to the production account.

   4. Restore data as Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) pages in Amazon S3.

   5. Merge the VHDs.

   6. Launch the import task to create an AMI.

   7. Share the AMI to the production account.

2. On the production account, restore the instance from the AMI.

IntelliSnap Backup Operations

During IntelliSnap backups, the AMI and snapshots are created in the account that contains the guest VMs.

Backup Copy Operations

1. On the production account:

   1. Share snapshots with the admin account.

2. On the admin account:

   1. Create volumes.

   2. Mount the volumes to the access node.

   3. Back up the volumes.

   4. Unmount the volumes.

   5. Unshare the snapshots.

Live Browse and File Recovery

For streaming backups, live browse and file recovery operations are unchanged for operations that use resources from an admin account.

Agentless File Recovery from Streaming Backups

1. Restore files to the local access node.

2. Share the bucket to the production account.

3. Upload to the Amazon S3 bucket.