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Recipe: Restore an Entire VM in vSphere

A Fully restored VMware virtual machine in the same location as the backed-up source VM used to be.

Time to complete: minutes to hours

Ingredients:

Before you start:

You will restore an entire VM to a previous state. Restoring at the same location will replace the VM in its current state if it still exists.

Assumptions:

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

You have at least one backup for your virtual machine, or a snapshot of the production Datastore where the VM sits.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.
Click Restore and select VMware vSphere > Restore from backup > Entire VM restore > Entire VM restore
In the Virtual Machines step:
- Click in Add -> From backup… to open the selection of available backups. Choose the desired VM from one of the backups and click Add.
- In the Virtual machines to restore list, select a VM and click in Point, then select a restore point from which you want to restore the VM and click OK. Click Next.
In the Restore Mode step, select Restore to the original location and click Next. As an option select the Quick rollback check box if you want to perform incremental restore for the VM.
In the Secure Restore step, keep either Scan restore points with Veeam Threat Hunter (if Veeam Threat Hunter is configured) or Scan restore points with your existing antivirus software disabled, and Scan the restore point with the following YARA rule as well. Click Next.
If required, in the Staged Restore step, configure the Virtual Lab, Application Group, Sript and Credentials to use this feature.
In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the Restore and click Next.
Choose if the target VMs should be powered on and connected to the network, and then click Finish.

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