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Restore virtual machines data with BlueXP backup and recovery

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You can restore virtual machines data from the cloud back to the on-premises vCenter with BlueXP backup and recovery. You can restore the virtual machine to the exact same location from where the backup was taken or to an alternate location. If the virtual machine was backed up using archival policy, then you can set the archival restore priority.

Note You cannot restore virtual machines that span across datastores.

NOTE To switch to and from BlueXP backup and recovery workloads, refer to Switch to different BlueXP backup and recovery workloads.

Before you begin

  • Ensure that you have met all the virtual machine protection requirements before backing up datastores to the cloud.

  • If you are restoring to an alternate location:

    • Ensure that the source and destination vCenters are in linked mode.

    • Ensure that the source and destination cluster details are added in BlueXP Canvas and in linked mode vCenters in both SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere host.

    • Ensure that the Working Environment (WE) is added corresponding to the alternate location in BlueXP Canvas.

Steps

  1. In BlueXP UI, select Protection > Backup and recovery > Virtual Machines > SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere and select the SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere host.

Note If the source virtual machine is moved to another location (vMotion), and if the user triggers a restore of that virtual machine from BlueXP, then the virtual machine is restored to the source location from where the backup was taken.

  1. You can restore the virtual machine to the original location or to an alternate location from the datastore or from virtual machines:

If you want to restore the virtual machine…​ Do this…​

to the original location from datastore

  1. Select the Actions icon action corresponding to the datastore that you want to restore and click View Details.

  2. Select Restore corresponding to the backup you want to restore.

  3. Select the virtual machine that you want to restore from the backup and select Next.

  4. Ensure that Original is selected and select Continue.

  5. If the virtual machine is protected using a policy where archival settings are configured, select the Archival Restore Priority and select Next.

    The supported archival restore priority for Amazon Web Services are high, standard, and low and the supported archival restore priority for Microsoft Azure are high and standard.

  6. Review the details and select Restore.

to an alternate location from datastore

  1. Select the Actions icon action corresponding to the datastore that you want to restore and select View Details.

  2. Select Restore corresponding to the backup you want to restore.

  3. Select the virtual machine that you want to restore from the backup and select Next.

  4. Select Alternate.

  5. Select the alternate vCenter Server, ESXi host, datastore, and network.

  6. Provide a name for the VM after restore and select Continue.

  7. If the virtual machine is protected using a policy where archival settings are configured, select the Archival Restore Priority and select Next.

    The supported archival restore priority for Amazon Web Services are high, standard, and low and the supported archival restore priority for Microsoft Azure are high and standard.

  8. Review the details and select Restore.

to the original location from virtual machines

  1. Select the Actions icon action corresponding to the virtual machine that you want to restore and select Restore.

  2. Select the backup through which you want to restore the virtual machine.

  3. Ensure that Original is selected and select Continue.

  4. If the virtual machine is protected using a policy where archival settings are configured, select the Archival Restore Priority and select Next.

    The supported archival restore priority for Amazon Web Services are high, standard, and low and the supported archival restore priority for Microsoft Azure are high and standard.

  5. Review the details and select Restore.

to an alternate location from virtual machines

  1. Select the Actions icon action corresponding to the virtual machine that you want to restore and select Restore.

  2. Select the backup through which you want to restore the virtual machine.

  3. Select Alternate.

  4. Select the alternate vCenter Server, ESXi host, datastore, and network.

  5. Provide a name for the VM after restore and select Continue.

  6. If the virtual machine is protected using a policy where archival settings are configured, select the Archival Restore Priority and select Next.

    The supported archival restore priority for Amazon Web Services are high, standard, and low and the supported archival restore priority for Microsoft Azure are high and standard.

  7. Review the details and select Restore.
Note If the restore operation does not complete, do not try the restore process again until the Job Monitor shows that the restore operation has failed. If you try the restore process again before the Job Monitor shows that the restore operation has failed, the restore operation will fail again. When you see the Job Monitor status as "Failed," you can try the restore process again.