Performing Instant 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 by Veeam Backup & Replication
• Backups of VMware vSphere virtual machines created by Veeam Backup & Replication

Note that in this case the step of the wizard described in the Performing Instant 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 by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux

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

• Backups of Google VM instances created by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

• [Starting from Veeam Backup & Replication 11a (build 11.0.1.1261)] Backups of RHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for RHV

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

To perform Instant Recovery, use the Instant Recovery wizard.

1. Сheck prerequisites

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 Recovery settings
9. Finalize Instant Recovery