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Recipe: Performing Instant Recovery of Workloads to Hyper-V
Expected deliverables:
A VM started in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment directly from a Veeam backup with Instant Recovery.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- A Hyper-V infrastructure added to the backup infrastructure.
- At least one Restore Point of the virtual machines to be recovered.
- 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.
Before you start:
Be aware of potential IP Address or MAC Address conflict when restoring the VM to the original location with original settings.
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 Instant recovery > Microsoft Hyper-V.
- At the Machines step, you can choose to restore multiple Workloads at a time. To do that, click Add -> From backup…. Choose the desired VMs from the backups and click Add.
- Select a restore point for every VM to be recovered or keep the default.
- Click Next.
- At the Restore Mode step, specify a destination for VM recovery and click Next.
- At the Host step, specify hosts or clusters where you want to locate the recovered VMs, by selecting the VM and clicking in Host.
- At the Datastore step, specify the location (folder) where VM configuration files and disks will be stored, by selecting the VM and clicking in Path.
- At the Network step, configure a network mapping table, by selecting the necessary VMs and clicking Network.
- At the Name step you can change the name of each restored VM and select whether you want to preserve its UUID or change it.
- In the Helper Appliance step click in Configure and in the Network Settings windows:
- Select a network for the helper appliance by clicking Browse
- Click Configure and set the IPv4 or IPv6 address, and the DNS server.
- Click OK and Next
- In the Secure Restore step, you can enable Veeam to scan machine data for malware activity before restoring the machine to the production environment. Click Next.
- In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the Instant Recovery and click Next..
- In the Summary step, choose if the target VMs should be powered on and connected to the network, and then click Finish.
Important: After the VMs have been successfully recovered, you must finalize the process. For this, test the recovered VMs and decide whether to migrate them to production environment or stop publishing
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