Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Virtual machine recovery

The next virtual machine recovery option available in the NMC Recovery wizard is to perform a recovery of a virtual machine backed up with the vProxy Appliance to a new virtual machine.

1. In the Select the Virtual Machine Recovery Method page:
   1. Select Virtual Machine Recovery.
   2. Click Next.
2. In the Configure the Virtual Machine Recovery page, select the location where you want to restore the virtual machine in the vCenter environment
   1. In the Destination pane, select the option to recover the new virtual machine to the original location, or browse to select a new location on the same vCenter server or a different vCenter server.
   2. In the Recovery Options pane, choose a vProxy for the virtual machine recovery from the Select vProxy drop-down, specify the name of the new virtual machine, and then optionally select the virtual machine file datastore and folder where you want to recover the files. You can recover the virtual machine to a Blue folder by using the VM Folder drop-down, as shown in the following figure. The folder can be the default folder, or a new folder.

   

   If you have a single disks, or multiple disks with multiple datastores, you can perform the following:

   • Choose to recover a collection of all the available hard drives.
   • Select a different datastore than the original datastore.
   • Select a different datatore for each disk you want to recover.
   • Specify the datastore where the virtual machine configuration files reside.

   Optionally, select the Power on virtual machine and Reconnect to network options to power on and reconnect after the recovery, and then click Next.

3. In the Select Alternate Recovery Sources page:
   1. Select the original virtual machine backup, or a clone copy if one is available.
   2. If recovering from a clone that is not on a Data Domain device, or recovering from a Data Domain Cloud Tier device, specify the staging pool.
   3. Click Next.
   NOTE:If selecting a clone from Select Alternate Recovery Sources, additionally review the "Selecting alternate recovery sources" section.
4. In the Perform the Recovery page:
   1. Specify a name for the recovery and check the summary at the bottom of the page to ensure all the details are correct.
   2. Click Run Recovery.