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Create and Restore to New VM enables you to create a new virtual machine using a copy of the original virtual machine backup. Other than having a new name or location and a new vSphere VM Instance UUID, this copy is an exact replica of the virtual machine that you backed up with the protection policy in
PowerProtect Data Manager.
From the
PowerProtect Data Manager UI, select
Restore > Assets, and then select the
Virtual Machine tab.
The
Restore window displays all virtual machines available for restore.
Select the checkbox next to the appropriate virtual machines and click
Restore.
You can also use the filter in the
Name column to search for the name of the specific virtual machine or click the
File Search button to run file level restore workflows on specific files within virtual machines.
The
Restore wizard appears.
On the
Select Copy page, for each virtual machine that is listed in the table, select the radio button next to the virtual machine and click
Choose Copy.
The
Choose Copy dialog box appears.
NOTE If you click
Next without choosing a copy, the most recent backup copy is used.
If the backup is on a
DD system, click
DD, and then select from one of the available copies that display in the table.
Click
OK to save the selection and exit the dialog, and then click
Next.
On the
Purpose page, select
Restore Entire VMs to restore the image-level virtual machine backup, and then click
Next.
NOTE If you specified any disk exclusions in the virtual machine protection policy, a message appears indicating that disks were excluded from this backup. If one of the excluded disks was a boot disk, the restore might not complete successfully.
On the
Restore Type page, select
Create and Restore to New VM, and then click
Next.
On the
VM Information page:
From the
vCenter list, select the vCenter server for the new virtual machine restore. This list displays any vCenter server that has been added from the
Assets window.
When you select a vCenter server, available data centers appear.
Select the destination data center.
Click
Next.
On the
Restore Location page:
Select the location within this data center that you want to restore the virtual machine by expanding the hierarchical view. For example, select a specific cluster, and then select a host within the cluster.
Click
Next.
If you selected an ESXi host within the cluster, the
Datastore page displays.
If you selected a cluster but did not select a host, the
ESX Host page displays.
On the
ESX Host page, select a host that is connected with the cluster, and then click
Next.
On the
Datastore page, select the datastore where you want to restore the virtual machine disks.
NOTE The
Total Estimated Space Needed for Recovery is displayed and updated according to the specified disk provisioning type.
In the datastore list:
The free space in each datastore is displayed.
If a datastore is estimated to be smaller than required for recovery, it is displayed in red alongside an error icon.
Select
Browse...
to display the total capacity, provisioned capacity, and free capacity of all available datastore(s), and select a datastore.
If you are restoring multiple virtual machines, select the
Datastore and
Provisioning Type to use for all virtual machines.
If you are restoring one virtual machine:
To restore all disks to the same location, keep
Configure Per Disk disabled, and select the datastore from the datastore list in the
Storage column.
To restore disks to different locations, enable
Configure Per Disk, and for each disk, select a datastore from the datastore list in the
Storage column. Select how to provision the disk from the provisioning types in the
Disk Format column.
NOTE If you select a datastore whose estimated free space is smaller than required for recovery, a warning is displayed. In this case, you can select
Proceed Anyways to continue, but it is recommended to create more space in the specified datastore(s) before doing so.
Click
Next.
On the
Options page:
If restoring a single virtual machine, specify the
New VM name.
If restoring multiple virtual machines, select whether you want to use the original virtual machine names for the virtual machine restore, or rename the virtual machines by appending a suffix to the original name.
For
Select Access Level, keep the slider set to
Yes if you want to enable instant access for this restore.
When you select this option, the virtual machine is created and turned on while temporarily accessing the VMDKs from
DD storage. Storage vMotion is initiated to the target datastore. The virtual machine becomes available for use when it is turned on.
(Optional) For the recovery options, select
Power on the virtual machine when the restore completes and
Reconnect the virtual machine's NIC when the restore completes.
Power on the virtual machine when the restore completes is selected by default when instant access is enabled.
Select
Restore VM Tags to restore vCenter tags and categories associated with this backup copy. Tags are backed up by default as part of the virtual machine protection policy backup.
NOTE You can only select this option when restoring entire virtual machines. Any existing tags and categories on the assets in the restore location will be replaced with the tags and categories from the assets in the restored copy. If the tags and categories being restored do not exist on the vCenter server at the time of the restore, or have been deleted, they will be re-created as part of the restore, along with the tag description and the cardinality settings that determine the relationship of tags within a category. If tags and categories on the vCenter server have been renamed since the last backup, the renamed tags and categories will not be overwritten upon restore. For example, if a tag's ID is the same but the tag's name has been changed since the backup, a new tag is created based on the tag name in the backup copy being restored.
Upon successful restore, the replaced tags and categories can be viewed in the
vSphere ClientTags & Custom Attributes window, or the
Tags pane of the
Summary window when the virtual machine is selected.
Select
Restore Storage Policies if you also want to restore any virtual machine disk-level or non-disk specific storage policy assignments.
If you select this option but the backup copy was taken with
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5 and earlier, or the storage policy is not available, the virtual machine restore proceeds but any storage policy association is not restored.
NOTE Enabling this option requires vCenter version 6.7 or later.
For low-bandwidth environments, select
Enable DDBoost Compression.
This option reduces network usage by compressing data on the
protection storage system before transfer to the
VM Direct Engine, which decompresses the data. Compression reduces restore times but increases CPU usage on both systems.
For
Select a Protection Engine, move the slider to the right if you want to override the automatic protection engine selection, and then select another
VM Direct Engine to use for the restore. When the restore job is started, the name of the protection engine used for the restore displays in the
Jobs window
Details pane.
Click
Next.
The
Networks page appears if the virtual machine was backed up using
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 or later. It displays the network adaptors and associated networks the virtual machine had used when it was backed up. Click
Next after reviewing this information and optionally performing one or both of the following actions.
NOTE If a network used by an adapter is no longer accessible to the new virtual machine, a warning is displayed, and a different network should be selected for that adapter.
To select a different network, click the associated drop-down control in the
Network column, and then select an entry from the list.
To change the initial power-on connection status of a network adapter, select or clear the associated check box in the
Connect at Power On column.
Click
Next.
On the
Summary page, verify that the information you specified in the previous steps is correct, and then click
Restore.
Go to the
Jobs window to monitor the restore.
A restore job appears with a progress bar and start time. You can also click
next to the job to verify what steps have been performed, for example, when the instant access session has been created.
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