Restore Entire VM via vCD's portal

Owned by Tran Dai Quan
Feb 05, 2024
4 min read

Overview

With the option of Entire recovery, you can restore an entire VM from a backup file to the latest state or to a previous point in time if the original VM fails. Entire VM restore enables full disk I/O performance.

Requirement:

  • Check your available resources.

  • Create a new vApp to restore the VM if you want to restore it to a new location.

  • Add network of VM original to new vApp.

Main Step

  • Choose the VM and point that needs to restore with Entire Recovery.

  • Select Restore mode.

  • Verify status restore.

Procedure

Step 1. From the main menu vCD Portal, select More -> Data Protection with Veeam

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Step 2. Select tab VMs

 

Step 3. Select VM need to restore --> Entire Recovery

 

Step 4. On Restore Point

Select backup date want to restore --> Next

 

Step 5. On Restore mode

There are 2 modes:

Mode 01- Restore to the original location: Quickly initiate the restore of the selected VM to its original location, with the original name and settings. This option minimizes the chance of user input error.

  • The restore VM will override on original VM.

  • Original VM will be shut down and deleted when the restorage success.

>> Please follow step 5.1

 

Mode 02 - Restore to a new location, or with different settings: Customize the restored VM location, and change its settings. The wizard will automatically populate all controls with the original VM settings as the defaults.

  • This mode will increase your resources, so please check your available resource and contact HI GIO-Sales if you want to add more resources to restore the VM.

  • You need to create a new vApp to restore the VM.

>> Please follow step 5.2

Step 5.1. Restore to the original location

5.1.1 Select Next

 

5.1.2 On Summary

Verify VM restore information → select Power on VM automatically → Finish

 

Step 5.2 Restore to a new location, or with different settings

5.2.1 Select Next

 

5.2.2 On Destination

*** Specify vApp to restore the virtual machine to, and type in the restored VM's name.

Click Choose

 

Select vApp has been created before

 

 

 

 

Change VM name → Next

 

5.2.3 On Network

Keep default or choose network already added on vApp → Select Next

 

 

5.2.4 On Datastore

Keep default or choose Policy already on your resource → Select Next

 

5.2.5 On Summary

Verify VM restore information → select Power on VM automatically → Finish

 

 

Step 6. Verify Status VM restore

Select tab VMs → History to check the status of VM restore

 

 

Restore VM successfully

 

In a some case after restore the linux VM (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu..) the machine will boot up without the local network interface.

You'll get the message like this: "Bringing up interface eth0: Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring."

The reason for this is VM has been assigned an ethernet adapter with a different MAC address than what the source VM was using.

Resolve: Get MAC address that VM has assigned and update it to interface

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