Restoring Veeam Agent Backup to vSphere VM

In the Veeam Backup & Replication console, you can use Instant Recovery to restore a Veeam Agent computer as a VMware vSphere VM in your virtualization environment.

A restored VMware vSphere VM will have the same settings as the backed-up Veeam Agent computer. During the restore process, Veeam Backup & Replication retrieves the settings of the Veeam Agent computer from the backup and applies them to the target VM. These settings include:

• Amount of RAM.
• Number of CPU cores.
• Number of network adapters.
• Network adapter settings.
• BIOS UUID.

If you do not want to preserve the backed-up machine UUID for a VMware vSphere VM, you can create a new UUID during the Instant Recovery configuration process.

• Number of disks and volumes.
• Size of volumes.

Considerations and Limitations

If you restore a Veeam Agent computer to a VMware vSphere VM, consider the following:

• You can use entire machine or volume-level backups of Microsoft Windows computers. Volume-level backups must include the computer system drive.
• You can use backups of Microsoft Windows computers stored in a Veeam backup repository only. You cannot perform this operation with Veeam Agent backups stored in a Veeam Cloud Connect repository.
• Make sure that the target host has enough resources for a new VM. Otherwise, your VM will reduce the target host performance.

• If you restore a workload to the production network, make sure that the original workload is powered off. 

  Restore to vSphere VM

  The procedure of Instant Recovery for a Veeam Agent computer practically does not differ from the same procedure for a VM. The main difference from Instant Recovery is that you do not need to select the recovery mode, because Veeam Agent computers are always restored to a new location. To learn more, see the Performing Instant Recovery of Workloads to VMware vSphere section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.