The Veeam Cookbook Series

A simple step by step no frills approach to achieving your goal

Recipe: Restore with IVMR in the same location

Expected deliverables:

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

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• At least one Restore Point of the virtual machines to be recovered.

Assumptions: It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment. The vSphere infrastructure have been added to the backup infrastructure and properly configured.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.
2. Click Restore and select VMware vSphere > Restore from backup > Entire VM restore > Instant recovery > Instant recovery to VMware vSphere
3. Select Add -> From backup… to open the selection of available backups. Choose the desired VM from one of the backups and click Add. Click Next.
4. Select Restore to the original location and click Next.
5. In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the Intant Recovery.
6. 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

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums

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