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Before you restore a VM from, check the following prerequisites:

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

When you restore a VM to its initial location and the original VM is still running, Veeam Backup & Replication will power off the original VM and delete it from the infrastructure.
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.
The source host where the original VM was registered and destination host on which the VM is restored must meet compatibility requirements below:

Source host	Target host
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled	Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role enabled Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 machine with the Hyper-V role enabled	Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled