Performing Instant VM Recovery of Workloads to VMware vSphere VMs

To restore workloads as VMware vSphere VMs, you can use the following backups:

• Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication
• Backups of VMware vSphere virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication. Note that in this case the step of the wizard described in the Performing Instant VM Recovery of Workloads to VMware vSphere VMs secion in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for VMware vSphere will apply.

• Backups of virtual and physical machines created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux

• Backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV
• Backups of Amazon EC2 instances created with Veeam Backup for AWS
• Backups of Microsoft Azure virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

• Backups of Google virtual machines

If you need to recover workloads as Hyper-V VMs, see the Performing Instant VM Recovery of Workloads to Hyper-V VMs section.

Before you start Instant VM Recovery, check prerequisites. Then use the Instant Recovery to VMware wizard to recover workloads.

1. Launch the Instant Recovery to VMware vSphere wizard
2. Select workloads
3. Select a restore point
4. Select a destination for virtual disk updates
5. Configure a helper appliance
6. Specify secure restore settings
7. Specify a restore reason
8. Verify Instant VM Recovery settings
9. Finalize Instant VM Recovery