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Recipe: Export HPE Morpheus VM Disks

Disks of a backed-up HPE Morpheus VM Essentials VM restored and converted to VMDK, VHD or VHDX format on a target server.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

An HPE Morpheus VM Essentials backup with at least one successfully created restore point.
A target server added to the backup infrastructure to store the exported disks.

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

Before you start:
Secure Restore option is available if you export disks of Microsoft Windows workloads

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 that contains the disks you want to export and select Export content as virtual disks.
Select a restore point and click Next.
Select the disks to export and click Next.
Select the output format (VMDK, VHD or VHDX) and the target server and folder. Click Next.
In the Secure Restore step you can instruct Veeam to scan the backup 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 or Abort Disk recovery if scan finds a virus threat, then click Next.
In the Reason step, enter a reason and click Next.
In the Summary step, review the details and click Finish.

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