Overview

With the option of Instant recovery, you can recover VM quickly. VM will be mounted workload images to a host directly from the backup stored on backup repositories. However, it will be limited I/O performance, you must migrate VM to the production when successfully restored.

*** Prepare

• Check your available resource.

• Create a new vApp to restore the VM

*** During recovery

You can only restore and migrate each VM in turn.

*** If you want to restore and migrate many VM at the same time

• Please contact HI GIO support.

Procedure

*** Main Step

• Choose the VM and point that need to restore with Instant Recovery.

• Select Restore mode.

• Verify status restore.

• Migrate and Verify VM.

*** Detail

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 --> Instant Recovery

Step 4. On Restore Point

• Select backup date want to restore --> Next

Step 5. On Restore mode

*** 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.

• VM restore will override on VM original.

• VM original will be shut down and deleted when you successfully restored.

>> Please follow step 5.1

*** 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 → Select Next

5.2.4 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

• Back to vCD portal, VM restore had power-on

Step 7. Migrate to Production

*** After checking the data on VM restore, if it contains the data you want, you need to migrate to production to ensure I/O performance for the VM.

• Back to Data Protection with Veeam → Instant Recovery

• Select VM restore → Migrate to Production

• On Destination → Choose

• Select Storage Policy → OK

• Next

• On Ready → Finish

• To check the status migrated VM restore, select VMs → History

• Select VM restore

• VM restore has migrated to production

Step 8. Verify VM restore information

*** To make sure VM restore has run with the correct configuration, go back to vCD portal and check:

• Hard disk (Size, IOPS, Storage Policy)

• Compute (CPU, Memory)