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Recover Source Servers Using Data From VMware Virtual Standby Virtual Machines

The application lets you recover source servers using CA ARCserve D2D data that was converted to VMware Virtual Standby virtual machines.

Note: The application uses the bare metal recovery process to recover source servers from VMware virtual machines. For more information, see Recovering Source Servers Using Bare Metal Recovery.

To recover source servers using data from VMware Virtual Standby virtual machines

1. Insert the saved Boot Kit image media and boot the computer.
   • If you are using a saved Windows PE Image, insert the Boot Kit image CD/DVD.
   • If you are using a USB stick, insert the Windows Server Installation CD/DVD and connect the USB stick with the saved Boot Kit image.

   The BIOS Setup Utility screen is displayed.

2. From the BIOS Setup Utility screen, select the CD-ROM Drive option to launch the boot process.

   Note: If you are using Windows PE image to perform BMR, select an architecture (x86/x64) and press Enter to continue.

   

3. The CA ARCserve D2D language select screen is displayed. Select a language and press "Next" to continue.

   Note: If you perform BMR with a BMR USB stick and a Windows 7/Windows Vista/Windows 2008/Windows 2008 R2 installation media (CD/DVD) not supported with a Multilingual User Interface (MUI), the language select screen is suppressed.

   

   The Bare Metal Recovery process is initiated and the initial BMR wizard screen is displayed.

4. From the select the Type of Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) wizard screen, select the Recover using a VMware Virtual Standby VM option.

   

5. Click Next.

   The Select a Recovery Point screen is displayed with the ESX/VC Credentials dialog.

   

6. Enter the credential information and click OK.

   The Select a Recovery Point screen is displayed.

   CA ARCserve D2D then retrieves all the recovery point snapshots for the selected VMware server and displays the VMware Server in the left pane, with a listing of all the virtual machines that are hosted on the selected VMware server.

   

7. Select the virtual machine which contains recovery points for your backup image.

   The backup sessions (recovery point snapshots) for the selected virtual machine are displayed.

   

8. Select the virtual machine backup session (recovery point snapshots) that you want to recover.

   The corresponding details for the selected recovery point snapshot (virtual machine name, backup session name, backed up volumes, backed up dynamic disks) are displayed in the right pane.

   In addition to selecting one of the listed recovery points, you also have the option to select the "Current State" or the "Latest State" recovery point.

   • If the virtual machine that you are recovering from is powered on, the "Current State" recovery point is displayed.
   • If the virtual machine that you are recovering from is powered off, the "Latest State" recovery point is displayed.

     If you select the "Latest State" recovery point, an error message will be displayed to inform you that the recovery point you are recovering from is the Latest (and not the Current) state and requesting that you start the virtual machine before continuing with the recovery process.

9. Verify this is the recovery point that you want to restore and click Next.

   A BMR wizard screen is displayed with the available recovery mode options.

   

10. Select the recovery mode.

    The available options are Advanced Mode and Express Mode.

    • Select Advanced Mode if you want to customize the recovery process.
    • Select Express Mode if you want minimal interaction during the recovery process.

    Default: Express Mode.

    Note: The remainder of this procedure is applicable only if you selected the Advanced Mode and the procedure provides information to guide you through the BMR process.

11. Click Next.

    The BMR utility starts locating the machine that is going to be recovered and displays the corresponding disk partition information.

    The upper pane shows the disk configuration that you have on the current (target) machine and the lower pane shows the disk partition information that you had on the original (source) machine.

    Important! A red X icon displaying for a source volume in the lower pane indicates that this volume contains system information and has not been assigned (mapped) to the target volume. This system information volume from the source disk must be assigned to the target disk and restored during BMR or the reboot fails.

    Note: If you perform BMR and you restore the system volume to a disk which is not configured as the boot disk, it will fail to boot the machine after BMR is completed. Ensure that you are restoring the system volume to a properly configured boot disk.

    Note: When restoring to another disk/volume, the capacity of new disk/volume must be the same size or larger than original disk/volume. In addition, disk resizing is for basic disks only, and not for dynamic disks.

    

12. If the current disk information you are seeing does not appear correct, you can access the Utilities menu and check for missing drivers.
13. If necessary, on the target volume pane you can click the Operations drop-down menu to display the available options.

    From this menu, you can reset any existing partitions or you can create new partitions to correspond to the disk partitions on the source volume. (Reset means to reload the source and target disk layout information from the configure file and current OS, and discard any user changed disk layout information).

    Note: When mapping to another disk, the capacity of each mapped target volume must be the same size or larger than the corresponding source volume.

    

14. Click on each target volume and from the pop-up menu, select the Map Volume From option to assign a source volume to this target volume.

    The Select a Basic Source Volume dialog opens.

    

15. From Select a Basic Source Volume dialog, click the drop-down menu and select the available source volume to assign to the selected target volume. Click OK.
    • On the target volume, a checkmark icon is displayed, indicating that this target volume has been mapped to.
    • On the source volume, the red X icon changes to a green icon, indicating that this source volume has been assigned to a target volume.
16. When you are sure all volumes that you want to restore and all volumes containing system information are assigned to a target volume, click Next.

    The Submit Disk Changes screen opens, displaying a summary of the selected operations. For each new volume being created, the corresponding information is displayed.

    

17. When you have verified the summary information is correct, click Submit. (If the information is not correct, click Cancel).

    Note: All operations to the hard drive do not take effect until you submit it.

    On the target machine, the new volumes are created and mapped to the corresponding source machine.

18. When the changes are completed, click OK.

    The Summary of Restore Settings screen opens, displaying a summary of the volumes that are going to be restored.

    Note: On the bottom of restore summary window, the drive letters listed in "Destination Volume" column are automatically generated from the Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). They can be different from the drive letters listed in "Source Volume" column. However, the data is still restored to proper volume even if drive letters are different.

    

19. After you have verified that the summary information is correct, click OK.

    The restore process starts. The BMR wizard screen displays the restore status for each volume.

    • Depending upon the size of the volume being restored, this operation can take some time.
    • During this process you are restoring, block-by-block whatever you had backed up for that recovery point and creating a replica of the source machine on the target machine.
    • By default, the option to reboot your system automatically after recovery is selected. If necessary, you can clear this option and you can reboot manually at a later time.
    • If necessary, you can cancel or abort the operation at any time.

      

20. From the Utilities menu, you can access the BMR Activity Log and you can use the Save option to save the Activity Log.

    By default, the Activity Log is saved to the following location:

    X:\windows\system32\dr\log.

    Note: To avoid getting a Windows-generated error, do not save the Activity Log on your desktop or create a folder on your desktop using the "Save As" option from the BMR Activity Log window.

21. If you are restoring to dissimilar hardware (the SCSI/FC adapter which used to connect hard drives could have been changed) and no compatible driver is detected in your original system, a "driver injection" page is displayed to allow you to provide drivers for these devices.

    You can browse and select drivers to inject to the recovered system so that even if you are recovering to a machine with dissimilar hardware, you can still bring back the machine after BMR.

22. When the BMR process is completed, a confirmation notification is displayed.

Notes: After completion of BMR:

• The first backup that is performed is a Verify Backup.
• Verify that the BIOS is configured to boot from the disk on which the boot volume was restored to.
• When the machine has been rebooted, you may need to configure the network adapters manually if you restored to dissimilar hardware.
• For dynamic disks, if the status of the disk is offline, you can manually change it to online from the disk management UI (accessed by running the Diskmgmt.msc control utility).
• For dynamic disks, if the dynamic volumes are in a failed redundancy status, you can manually resynchronize the volumes from the disk management UI (accessed by running the Diskmgmt.msc control utility).