The Veeam Cookbook Series

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Recipe: Restore and Entire VM in Hyper-V to the original location

An entire Virtual Machine restored in Hyper-V from a Veeam Backup to the original location.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

Hyper-V infrastructure must have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured.
You need the VM has at least one successfully created restore point.
Make sure that the Disable changed block tracking for this host option is not selected for a host to which you plan to restore a workload.
If you restore a workload to the production network, make sure that the original workload is powered off to avoid conflicts.
The restored VM will have the same MAC address as the original VM. Therefore, if you restore the VM to the same Hyper-V host where the original VM is running, a MAC address conflict may occur. To overcome this situation, power off the original VM before you start the restore process.

Assumptions:
You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.
Click Restore and select Microsoft Hyper-V > Restore from backup > Entire VM restore > Entire VM restoree
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 (by default Veeam uses the latest valid restore point) 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, if required enable either Scan restore points with Veeam Threat Hunter (if Veeam Threat Hunter is configured) or Scan restore points with your existing antivirus software, and Scan the restore point with the following YARA rule as well. Click Next.
In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the Intant Recovery 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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