Restore your VM or files from virtual disk to the Original location or Alternate location.
Field | Description |
Select what to restore | For VM, one option is available, ie. 'Choose from files as of job'. |
Restore raw files | Save the VMDK, XML, VDDK files on your hard disk. |
Restore virtual machines to | There are two options: 'Original location' and 'Alternate location'. |
Run Direct | This option will be shown when you restore VMware backup. This feature will allow the user to restore virtual machine by mounting the backup destination as a data store, where the VM will be run backup directly from the backup data. The Run Direct check box is enabled by default.
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With the Run Direct option enabled while the VM is running, the %edition_name% application interface is required to turn on. |
Auto migrate after Run Direct is running | With the Run Direct option enabled, there is a process to mount the backup destination as a NAS data store on a VMware host. The VM will then be run directly from the backup data until it is moved to its target restore destination. |
Auto power on after Run Direct is running | To power on the virtual machine after the Run Direct is running. |
Use vSphere vMotion to migrate | To allow live migration while the VM remains running. |
Verify checksum of in-file delta files during restore | To verify if the merged files were correct. This will make the restore process time longer. |
There are three restore scenarios for VMs stored on the vSAN which apply to both Normal and RunDirect Restore:
For Alternate location:
Note:
When restoring a VM to the vSAN, it is important to select the host which will run the guest VM from the vSAN cluster. Then select the datastore to be used as storage.
For Alternate location (Raw File):
After restore as raw file, users need to place the files under the sub-folder together with the files in the root folder, in order for the restored VM to start up normally when users import these raw files directly back to ESXi or vCenter.
For Original location:
For Alternate location:
As a result of the limitation of the virtual file system library, the mapped drive will only be unmounted from your machine when you exit %edition_name%. In other words, each Granular restore session on %edition_name% can only mount and unmount once.
Please note that the add network drive feature is not supported in the 'Restore raw file' option. This option can only select network drives which have already been setup in Windows.