Restore Entire VM via vCD's portal

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 the original VM network to the new vApp.

Procedure

• Choose the VM and point that needs to be restored with Entire Recovery.

• Select Restore mode.

• Verify status restore.

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Step 1. From the main menu vCD Portal, select More -> Data Protection with Veeam

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Step 2. Select tab VMs

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Step 3. Select VM need to restore --> Entire Recovery

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Step 4. On Restore Point

Select backup date want to restore --> Next

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Step 5. On Restore mode

There are 2 modes:

Mode 01- 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.

• The restore VM will override the original VM.

• The original VM will be shut down and deleted when the storage is successful.

>> 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

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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

Get MAC address from portal

Follow on your distribute to update MAC address