Recovering a virtual machine using the NMC Recovery wizard
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Recovering a virtual machine using the NMC Recovery wizard
When you click Recover in NMC's NetWorker Administration window and select Recover –
New from the menu, the Recovery wizard launches. Virtual Machine Recovery is the second recovery type displayed. After selecting the Virtual Machine Recovery type, you can perform recovery of individual virtual machines, or (for revert and virtual machine recovery options) recovery from multiple virtual machines.
Procedure
1. In the Select the Recovery Type page, select Virtual Machine Recovery, and then select a vCenter server to recover from using the Source vCenter server drop-down. Click Next.
2. In the Select the Virtual Machine to Recover page, enter the name of the source virtual machine(s) to recover from, or perform a search for the virtual machine. Additionally, you can use the tabs on this page to choose a single virtual machine or multiple virtual machines from a selected backup, or browse the source vCenter to determine the required virtual machine source. When you locate and choose the desired virtual machine(s), click Next.
In the Select the Target Backups page, select the virtual machine backup(s) you want to restore from the Available Backups pane. This pane lists both primary backups and, if available, clone copies. If you selected recovery from multiple virtual machines, you can switch between virtual machines to browse each machine's available backups by using the Virtual Machine Name dropdown. Click Next. 4. In the Select the Virtual Machine Recovery method page, select from one of the available recovery options:
l Revert (or rollback) a virtual machine
l Instant Recovery of a virtual machine (direct restore from a Data Domain device)
l Virtual Machine recovery (recovery to a new virtual machine)
l Virtual Disk recovery (recover VMDKs to an existing virtual machine)
l Emergency recovery (recovery to an ESX host)
l File Level recovery (recover files from VMDKs to a file system, or as a download).
To complete the Recovery wizard with the virtual machine recovery method, perform the following.
Procedure
1. In the Select the Virtual Machine Recovery Method page:
a. Select Virtual Machine Recovery.
b. 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
a. 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.
b. 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:
l Choose to recover a collection of all the available hard drives.
l Select a different datastore than the original datastore.
l Select a different datatore for each disk you want to recover.
l 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:
a. Select the original virtual machine backup, or a clone copy if one is available.
b. 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.
c. Click Next.
4. In the Perform the Recovery page:
a. Specify a name for the recovery and check the summary at the bottom of the page to ensure all the details are correct.
b. Click Run Recovery.
Results
The Check the Recovery Results page will display the duration of the recovery, and a
log file entry when the virtual machine recovery is complete.