Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance 5.12.0.1 Virtual Machine User Guide

Restore to a new service

A Create and Restore to New VM enables you to create a service using a copy of the original service backup. Other than having a new name or location and a new Hypervisor Platform Service Instance UUID, this copy is an exact replica of the service that you backed up with the protection policy in PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance.

1. From the PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance UI, select Restore > Assets, and then select the Virtual Machine tab.
   The Restore window displays all services available for restore.
2. Select the check box next to the appropriate services and click Restore.
   You can also use the filter in the Name column to search for the name of the specific services or click the File Search button to run file-level restore workflows on specific files within services.
   The Restore wizard appears.
3. On the Select Copy page, for each service that is listed in the table, select the radio button next to the service 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.
4. If the backup is on a Protection Storage system, click the storage icon, and then select from one of the available copies that display in the table.
5. Click OK to save the selection and exit the dialog, and then click Next.
6. On the Purpose page, select Restore Entire VMs to restore the image-level service backup, and then click Next.
   NOTE If you specified any disk exclusions in the service 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.
7. On the Restore Type page, select Create and Restore to New VM, and then click Next.
8. On the VM Information page:
   1. Select the Hypervisor Manager server for the new service restore. This list displays any Hypervisor Manager server that has been added from the Assets window.
      When you select a Hypervisor Manager server, available data centers appear.
   2. Select the destination data center.
   3. Click Next.
9. On the Restore Location page:
   1. Select the location within this data center that you want to restore the by expanding the hierarchical view. For example, select a specific cluster, and then select a host within the cluster.
   2. Click Next.
   If you selected an Hypervisor host within the cluster, the Datastore page displays.

   If you selected a cluster but did not select a host, the ESX Host page displays.

10. On the ESX Host page, select a host that is connected with the cluster, and then click Next.
11. On the Datastore page, select the datastore where you want to restore the service 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 datastores, and select a datastore.
    1. If you are restoring multiple services, select the Datastore and Provisioning Type to use for all services.
    2. If you are restoring one service:
       • 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 datastores before doing so.
    3. Click Next.
12. On the Options page:
    1. If restoring a single service, specify the New VM name.
    2. If restoring multiple services, select whether you want to use the original service names for the service restore, or rename the services by appending a suffix to the original name.
    3. 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 service is created and turned on while temporarily accessing the VMDKs from Protection Storage storage. Storage vMotion is initiated to the target datastore. The service becomes available for use when it is turned on.
    4. (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.
    5. Select Restore VM Tags to restore Hypervisor Manager tags and categories that are associated with this backup copy. Tags are backed up by default as part of the service protection policy backup.
       NOTE You can only select this option when restoring entire services. 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 Hypervisor Manager server at the time of the restore, or have been deleted, they are 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 Hypervisor Manager server have been renamed since the last backup, the renamed tags and categories will not be overwritten after 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.

       After a 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 service is selected.

    6. Select Restore Storage Policies if you also want to restore any service disk-level or non-disk specific storage policy assignments.
       NOTE Enabling this option requires Hypervisor Manager version 6.7 or later.
    7. 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.
    8. 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 that is used for the restore displays in the Jobs window Details pane.
    9. Click Next.
13. The Networks page displays the network adapters and associated networks that the service 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 service, a warning is displayed, and a different network should be selected for that adapter.
    1. To select a different network, click the associated drop-down control in the Network column, and then select an entry from the list.
    2. 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.
    3. Click Next.
14. On the Summary page, verify that the information you specified in the previous steps is correct, and then click Restore.
15. 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.