Performing Instant VM Recovery

Instant VM Recovery helps you immediately restore Amazon EC2 instances from image-level backups to VMware vSphere or Hyper-V environment.

• Performing Instant VM Recovery to VMware vSphere
• Performing Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V

For more information on Instant VM Recovery to VMware vSphere, see the Instant VM Recovery section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for VMware vSphere. For more information on Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V, see the Instant VM Recovery section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V.

Performing Instant VM Recovery to VMware vSphere

To perform Instant VM Recovery to VMware vSphere environment, do the following:

1. Check that you have added to the backup infrastructure a vCenter Server that will manage restored EC2 instances.

If you have not added the server, follow the instructions provided in the Adding VMware vSphere Servers section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

2. Launch and complete the Instant Recovery to VMware wizard.

To do that, in the inventory pane, navigate to the Backups > External Repository node. In the working area, expand the necessary job, and select backups of EC2 instances that you want to recover. On the ribbon, click Instant Recovery > VMware vSphere. Then follow the instructions provided in the Performing Instant VM Recovery of Workloads to VMware vSphere VMs section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Performing Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V

To perform Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V environment, do the following:

1. Check that you have added to the backup infrastructure a Microsoft Hyper-V server to which you plan to restore EC2 instances.

If you have not added a Microsoft Hyper-V server follow the instructions provided in the Adding Microsoft Hyper-V Servers section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

2. Launch and complete the Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V wizard as described in Performing Instant VM Recovery of Workloads to Hyper-V VMs section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.