Restore Entire VM via vCD's portal
- Tran Dai Quan
Analytics
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
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