NetWorker: How to POST VMware VM Image Restores with REST API

This KB gives a brief overview of how to perform VMware VM image restores from the REST API. The full REST API guide is available under: https://developer.dell.com/apis/2378/versions/v3/docs/GettingStarted.md
 

1. You can query all protected VMs to get the VM UUID of the VM you are looking to restore. The syntax of the link would follow:

2. You must collect the needed VMware Managed Object Reference (MoRef) values for the specific VM you are looking to restore: The syntax of the link would follow: 

The needed values appear under the vm_info line and under the vmInformation section of the output.

Example:
 

3. You can collect additional information by adding the backup ID to the GET request: 

4. To POST the restore, you would use the following link syntax: 

An example of the JSON body content would be replacing the values with the values collected in step 2 and 3:

{
	"recoverMode": "New",
	"datacenterMoref": "DATACENTER_MOREF",
	"datastoreMoref": "DATASTORE_MOREF",
	"computeResourceMoref": "COMPUTE_RESOURCE_MOREF",
		"disks": [
                    {
                        "datastoreMoref": "DATASTORE_MOREF",
                        "key": "2000",
                        "name": "Hard disk 1"
                    }
                ],
	"vCenterHostname": "VCENTER_NAME",
	"hostMoref": "VCENTER_MOREF",
	"vmName": "RESTORED_VM_NAME",
	"powerOn": "true/false",
	"reconnectNic": "true/false"
}

 Example:
 

 
The restore session is seen in the VMware client.

Logs for the restore session can be found:

NetWorker server:

vProxy used for restore: /opt/emc/vproxy/runtime/logs/recycle/vrecoverd/