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Restoring a Full Virtual Machine In Place for VMware

You can restore virtual machines in place, to their original location. By default, virtual machines are restored to the original location, using the same access node as the backup operation.

When you initiate a restore operation for a specific VM from the VM groups page or from the Virtual machines page, you can choose to restore the full VM, to use live recovery, or to perform a live mount operation.

Before You Begin

  • If a passkey is configured for restores, you must have the passkey.

  • Ensure that you are using a supported version of VMware vCenter Server.

  • VMware licensing must include a license for vMotion operations.

  • The ESX server that is used to mount the NFS datastore for browse and restore operations must be able to resolve the Backup Gateway (which uses 3DFS components to perform the live recovery). To ensure connectivity, create a host file entry for the Backup Gateway on the ESX server.

  • The vCenter user account must have permissions set as described in Permissions for Custom User Accounts.

Procedure

  1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.

    The Virtual machines page appears.

  2. Click the VM groups tab.

    The VM group page appears.

  3. On the VM groups tab, in the row for the VM group, click the action button action_button , and then click Restore.

    The Select restore type page appears.

  4. To choose a different Backup Gateway or source copy for the restore, do the following:

    1. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Settings.

      The Settings dialog box appears.

    2. For Backup Gateway, decide whether to have the Commvault Cloud software automatically select the Backup Gateway or to specify a Backup Gateway:

      • Automatic: By default, the Commvault Cloud software selects the Backup Gateway for the restore operation based on availability and environment.

      • To restore data using a specific Backup Gateway, from the list, select a Backup Gateway.

    3. For Source, decide whether to have the Commvault Cloud software automatically select the copy of backup data or to specify the copy:

      • Automatic: By default, the restore operation searches for the requested data in the primary copy and selects a different copy if the data is not found in the primary copy.

      • To restore from a specific copy of backup data, from the list, select a backup copy.

    4. Click Save.

  5. Select Full virtual machine.

    The Full virtual machine page appears.

  6. Select the content to restore, and then click Restore.

    The restore wizard appears.

  7. For Type, select In place.

  8. From the Access node list, select the access node or the access node group to use for the restore.

    If you are restoring multiple VMs, select Automatic to distribute the VMs in the restore job across the access nodes that are assigned for the VMware destination hypervisor.

    VMs are assigned to access nodes using the round-robin method.

    The Automatic option is available for full VM restores from streaming backups or IntelliSnap backup copies.

    If you select an access node group to restore VMs, the Commvault Cloud software distributes the workload (instances or VMs) in the restore job across the access nodes (also called proxies) that are available in the access node group.

  9. Click Next.

    The Virtual Machines page appears.

  10. Click Next.

    The Restore Options page appears.

  11. To automatically start the restored VM, move the Power on VMs after restore toggle key to the right.

  12. To overwrite current state of the VM with the restored VM, move the Unconditionally overwrite if it already exists toggle key to the right.

    Note

    • During the restore, the Commvault Cloud software will only detach the independent disks.

    • To recreate or reattach independent disks to the VM, you must set the RecreateIndependentDisks additional setting to true. The software recreates the independent disk only if the disk does not exist on the current state of the VM.

  13. Under Additional options, specify the following:

    • For Disk provisioning, do the following:

      • To retain the provisioning method that was used at the time of backup, select Original.

      • To specify a different disk provisioning method, select Thick Lazy Zero, Thin, or Thick Eager Zero.

    • For Transport mode, do the following:

      • To have the Commvault Cloud software automatically select the best transport mode for the environment, select Auto.

      • To specify a specific transport mode, select the transport mode.

  14. Click Next.

    The Summary page appears.

  15. Review the summary, and then click Submit to start the restore.

For information about transport modes, see Transport Mode Settings for VMware Restores.

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