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Recipe: Restore an Entire Nutanix AHV VM to the original location

An entire Nutanix AHV Virtual Machine restored from a Veeam Backup to the original location.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

A Nutanix AHV cluster added to the backup infrastructure.
You need the VM has at least one successfully created restore point.
If you restore a workload to the production network, make sure that the original workload is powered off to avoid conflicts.
A VM restored from a backup of a VM from another hypervisor may become unreachable through the network. To resolve the issue, install Nutanix VirtIO drivers and Nutanix Guest Tools.

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

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.
Select Backups in the inventory pane, expand the necessary backup job, right-click the VM you want to restore and select Restore entire VM > Nutanix AHV.
In the Virtual Machines step, the selected VM is listed.
- If you want to add more VMs to be recovered concurrently, 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, to select a restore point (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.
In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the restore and click Next.
In the Summary step, select Power on target VM after restoring if required, review the details and click Finish.

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