Using Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) › Perform a Restore › How to Restore a Virtual Machine › Specify the Virtual Machine Information to Restore › Define the Restore Options

Define the Restore Options

After you specify the virtual machine and the recovery point to restore, define the restore options for the selected virtual machine image.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Restore Options dialog, select the restore destination.

   

   The available destination options are:

   Restore to Original Location

   Restores the virtual machine to the original location from where the backup image was captured. By default, this option is selected.

   For more information, see Define the Original Location Restore Options.

   Restore to an Alternative Location

   Restores to the virtual machine to a different location from where the backup image was captured.

   For more information, see Define the Alternate Location Restore Options.

2. Specify the Resolving Conflicts options that Arcserve UDP will perform if conflicts are encountered during the restore process

   Overwrite existing Virtual Machine

   This option is to specify whether or not to overwrite the existing virtual machine. By default, this overwrite option is not selected.

   The available option is whether or not to overwrite the existing virtual machine. By default, this overwrite option is not selected.

   Note: For the Overwrite existing Virtual Machine option, an "existing virtual machine" is defined as a VM which has the same VM name and resides in the same ESXi host. If there is a VM which has the same VM name but resides in a different ESXi host (which is under the same vCenter), this overwrite option will not work. In this case, a VM recovery will fail because a VM with the same name (including the ESXi host) does not exist, and therefore cannot be overwritten. This failure is to avoid mistakenly overwrite a VM. To work around this, you need to either rename the existing VM or use the "Restore to alternative location" option and specify a different VM name.

   • If you select this option, the restore process overwrites (replaces) any existing images of this virtual machine that are at the specified restore destination. The virtual machine image is restored from the backup files regardless of its current presence on your restore destination.
   • If you do not select this option, and if you restore to the original location, the VM recovery job will fail if the VM still exists on the original location; and if you restore to alternative location, the restore process creates a separate image of this virtual machine and the restore process does not overwrite any existing images that are at the specified restore destination.

   Generate new Virtual Machine instance UUID

   This option is to specify whether to generate a new instance UUID for the restored VM or keep the original instance UUID. For Hyper-V VM, this option is selected and grayed out because Arcserve UDP always uses new instance UUID for restored Hyper-V VM.

   Note: If you do not select this option, then the original instance UUID will be set to the restored VM. However, in case the destination vCenter/ESXi already has a VM with the same instance UUID, new UUID will be used instead and a warning message is displayed in the activity log of VM recovery job.

3. Specify the Post Recovery option.

   Select whether power is applied to the virtual machine at the end of the restore process. By default, this option is not selected.

The restore options are defined to restore a virtual machine.