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Recipe: Restore a VMware virtual disk

A restored VMware virtual machine disk.

Time to complete: 8 minutes

Ingredients:

At least one Restore Point of the virtual machines from which the virtual disk should be recovered.

Before you start: With this procedure you will recover a VMware virtual disk to the source or different virtual machine.

Assumptions: You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
The vSphere infrastructure have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
Select Home on the bottom left menu.
Select Restore > VMware vSphere > Restore from backup > Disk restore > Virtual disks restore.
Select the desired virtual machine from a backup job and click Next.
Select an available restore point and click Next.
In the Disk Mapping step:
- If you wish to map the virtual disk to a different virtual machine, click Choose and select the virtual machine from the tree view.
- Select the desired virtual disks in the disk mapping field and review the restored disk type
- (For disk restore to the original location and with original format) Select the Quick rollback check box if you want to use incremental restore for the VM disk.
In the Secure Restore you can instruct Veeam Backup & Replication to scan machine data for malware activity before restoration. Choose between the following options:
- either Scan restore points with Veeam Threat Hunter (if Veeam Threat Hunter is configured) or Scan restore points with your existing antivirus software
- Scan the restore point with the following YARA rule to use YARA as a scan engine Choose between Proceed with recovery but do not attach infected disks to the target VM and Abort disk recovery if scan finds a virus threat, then click Next.
Enter a restore reason and click Next, than Finish
View the Restore session log and click Close once the restore is completed.

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