The Veeam Cookbook Series

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Recipe: Restore and Entire VM in Hyper-V to a new location

Expected deliverables:

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

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• Hyper-V Virtual 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:
It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.

Method:

1. On the Home tab, click Restore and select Microsoft Hyper-V > Restore from backup > Entire VM restore > Entire VM restoree
2. 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.
3. In the Restore Mode step, select Restore to a new location, or with different settings and click Next.
4. In the Host step, select the VM in the list and click in Host to select the host for the restored VM. Click Next.
5. In the Datastore step, select the VM in the list and click in Path to select the location for the restored VM. Click Next.
6. In the Network step, select the VM in the list and click in Network to select the Network for the restored VM. Click Next.
7. In the Name step, select the VM in the list and click in Name to change the name of the restored VM, or to add a suffix/prefix. Click Next.
8. At the Secure Restore step, if required you can enable the Scan the restored machine for malware prior to performing the recovery check box
9. In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the Recovery and click Next.
10. Choose if the target VMs should be powered on and connected to the network, and then click Finish.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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