Virtual machine

A virtual machine must be stopped during the recovery to this machine. The software stops the machine without a prompt. When the recovery is completed, you have to start the machine manually.

This behavior can be changed by using the VM power management recovery option (click Recovery options > VM power management).

To recover a virtual machine

1. Do one of the following:
   • Select a backed-up machine, click Recovery, and then select a recovery point.
   • Select a recovery point on the Backups tab.
2. Click Recover > Entire machine.
3. If you want to recover to a physical machine, select Physical machine in Recover to. Otherwise, skip this step.

   Recovery to a physical machine is possible only if the disk configuration of the target machine exactly matches the disk configuration in the backup.

   If this is the case, continue to step 4 in "Physical machine". Otherwise, we recommend that you perform the V2P migration by using bootable media.

4. The software automatically selects the original machine as the target machine.

   To recover to another virtual machine, click Target machine, and then do the following:

   1. Select the hypervisor (VMware ESXi or Hyper-V).
   2. Select whether to recover to a new or existing machine.
   3. Select the host and specify the new machine name, or select an existing target machine.
   4. Click OK.
5. [Optional] When recovering to a new machine, you can also do the following:
   • Click Datastore for ESXi or Path for Hyper-V, and then select the datastore (storage) for the virtual machine.
   • Click Disk mapping to select the datastore (storage), interface, and provisioning mode for each virtual disk. The mapping section also enables you to choose individual disks for recovery.
   • Click VM settings to change the memory size, the number of processors, and the network connections of the virtual machine.

   

6. Click Start recovery.
7. When recovering to an existing virtual machine, confirm that you want to overwrite the disks.

The recovery progress is shown on the Activities tab.