Restore to an Alternative Location

This section explains how to restore a virtual machine to an alternative location or different data store.

Follow these steps:

Select the Restore to an alternative location option, and then select the backup proxy server from the Backup Proxy drop-down list as needed.
Note: If you have not already added the backup proxy server, do the following:

Click Add next to the Backup Proxy drop-down list.
The Adding Host based agentless Backup Proxy server dialog appears.
From the Site Name drop-down list, select the site name as needed.
For Hostname / IP Address, type the hostname or the IP address.
Type the username and password of the corresponding hostname.
Click Save.
The backup proxy server gets added to the Bakup Proxy drop-down list.

Specify the server information.

For VMware
The vCenter/ESX Server field gets enabled.

vCenter/ESX Server

Specifies the host name or IP address for the destination vCenter Server or ESX Server system. Select the vCenter/ESX server from the drop-down list as needed.

For Hyper-V

The Hyper-V/Hyper-V Cluster Server field gets enabled.

Hyper-V/Hyper-V Cluster Server

Specifies the host name or IP address for the destination Hyper-V Server or Hyper-V cluster server system. Select the Hyper-V/Hyper-V server from the drop-down list as needed.

Add virtual machine to the cluster

Select the option if you want to add the virtual machine that Arcserve Cloud Console restores into the cluster. Consider the following options:

If you provide the cluster source name as the Hyper-V server name, the check box is selected by default and gets disabled. As a result, the virtual machine is automatically added into the cluster.
If you provide the host name of a Hyper-V server that is part of the cluster, the check box is enabled and you can select to add the virtual machine into the cluster.
If you provide the host name of a standalone Hyper-V server that is not part of the cluster, the check box is unchecked and disabled.

If the alternative server access credential information is correct, the VM Settings fields get enabled.
Specify the VM Settings.

For VMware

Specify the following details:

VM Name

Specifies the virtual machine name that you are restoring.

ESX Server

Specifies the destination ESX server. The drop-down list contains a list of all the ESX servers that are associated with a vCenter server.

Resource Pool

Select the Resource Pool or vApp Pool you want to use for the virtual machine recovery.

Note: A Resource Pool is a configured collection of CPU and memory resources. A vApp Pool is a collection of one or more virtual machines that can be managed as a single object.

Default: empty.

To add the Resource Pool, click the Add button. The Browse dialog opens and displays a list of all the Resource Pools and vApp Pools available for the destination ESX server. Select the pool to use for the virtual machine recovery. You can leave this field blank when you do not want to assign a Resource Pool or vApp Pool to this virtual machine recovery.

Storage Policy

Specifies the VM storage policy that is applied to VM home of restored VM. Select the Datastore Default option if you do not want to apply the VM storage policy.

Note: If you can see only Datastore Default but actually there are other storage policies defined in vCenter, then the account used to connect vCenter does not have enough permissions to get the storage policy from vCenter. Verify if the account has the privilege Profile-driven storage view at the vCenter level.

VM Datastore

Specifies the destination datastore for VM home of restored VM.

Note: By default, only those datastores that are compatible with selected storage policy are listed. If you want to see all datastores, clear the Show only compatible datastores for the selected storage policy check box that is under the Disk Datastore table.

Disk Datastore

Specifies the Virtual Disk Type, Storage Policy, and Target Datastore for each of the virtual disk of the VM respectively.

Virtual Disk Type: Select one of the following options: Thin, Thick Lazy Zeroed, or Thick Eager Zeroed.
Storage Policy: Select the VM storage policy that is applied to this virtual disk. Select the Datastore Default option if you do not want to apply the VM storage policy.
Target Datastore: Select the datastore where the virtual disk is restored.

Note: By default only the datastores that are compatible with selected storage policy are listed. If you want to see all datastores, clear the Show only compatible datastores for the selected storage policy check box that is under the Disk Datastore table.

Network

Specifies the network configuration details for the VM.

For Hyper-V

Specify the following details:

VM Name

Specifies the virtual machine name that you are restoring.

VM Path

Specifies the destination path (on Hyper-V server) where to save the Hyper-V VM configuration file. The default folder of the VM configuration file for the Hyper-V server is shown by default. You can modify the path directly in the field or click Browse to select the path of your choice.

Note: If you are restoring the virtual machine into Hyper-V cluster and you want the virtual machine to migrate among the cluster sources, specify the cluster shared volume (CSV) for both the VM path and the virtual disk path.

Specify the same virtual disk path for all virtual disks

Specify the path (on Hyper-V server) where to save all virtual disks of the VM together. The default folder of the VM disk file for the Hyper-V server is shown by default. You can modify the path directly in the field or click Browse to select the path of your choice.

Virtual Disk Type

To assign the virtual disk type, select one of the following options: Dynamically Expanding, Fixed Size, Fixed Size(Quick), and Keep same as source disk.

Notes:

If you are restoring the virtual machine into Hyper-V cluster and you want the virtual machine to migrate among the cluster sources, specify the cluster shared volume (CSV) for both the VM path and the virtual disk path.
Do not select the Fixed Size(Quick) option unless you are sure that you have not saved the sensitive information on the storage device where the virtual disk file resides.

Specify a virtual disk path for each virtual disk

Specify the path (on Hyper-V server) for each of the virtual disks of the VM respectively. The default folder of the VM disk file for the Hyper-V server is shown by default. You can modify the path directly in the field or click Browse to select the path of your choice.

Disk Datastore

Specifies the virtual disk type and path for each virtual disk.

Virtual Disk Type: To assign the virtual disk type, select one of the following options: Dynamically Expanding, Fixed Size, Fixed Size(Quick), and Keep same as source disk.
Path: Specify the path (on Hyper-V server) where to save the virtual disk of the VM.

Notes:

If you are restoring the virtual machine into Hyper-V cluster and you want the virtual machine to migrate among the cluster sources, specify the cluster shared volume (CSV) for both- the VM path and the virtual disk path.
Do not select the Fixed Size(Quick)option unless you are sure that you have not saved the sensitive information on the storage device where the virtual disk file resides.
Using the Fixed Size(Quick) option, you can restore Fixed Size disk in a quicker way. You do not need to clear unused disk blocks to zero while restoring the disk. However, because of this, some fragments of original data remains on underlying storage and creates risks of information leaks. After the disk is mounted into the virtual machine, the user of the virtual machine may use some disk tools to analyze the raw data in the disk and get the original data on Hyper-V server storage device where the file of virtual disk resides.

Adapter

Specifies the network configuration details for the VM.

The restore options for alternative location are defined.