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Before you perform Instant VM Recovery, check the following prerequisites:

You can restore a VM from a backup that has at least one successfully created restore point.

If you are recovering a VM to the production network, make sure that the original VM is powered off to avoid conflicts.

On non-Microsoft Windows SMB3 storages, for example, Tintri, Veeam Backup & Replication may display the "Failed to disable integrity bit on disk N" warning during VM restore. You can ignore this warning for non-Microsoft Windows SMB3 storages.