Instant Recovery
Overview
With the option of Instant recovery, you can recover VM quickly. VM will mount workload images to a host directly from the backup stored on backup repositories. However, it will be limited I/O performance; you must migrate the VM to production when successfully restored.
Requirement
Check your available resources.
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 VMs at the same time
Please contact HI GIO support.
Procedure
Choose the VM and point that needs to be restored with Instant Recovery.
Select Restore mode.
Verify status restore.
Migrate and Verify VM.
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 --> Instant Recovery
Step 4: On Restore Point
Select backup date want to restore --> Next
Step 5. On Restore mode
There are 2 modes:
*** Restore to the original location: Quickly restore 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 the original VM.
VM original will be shut down and deleted when you successfully restore.
>> 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 resources 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
When Instant Recovery is performed: Veeam Backup & Replication uses the Veeam vPower technology to mount a workload image to an ESXi host directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file. DO NOT shutdown\Power Of VM to avoid data loss.
Please process step 7 & 8 to complete the recovery.
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 → Select Choose...
Select Storage Policy → OK
Select Next
On Ready → Finish
To check the status of the 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)
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