Performing Instant VM Recovery of Workloads to Hyper-V VMs

To recover workloads as Hyper-V 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

• 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

Support of instant recovery of AHV VMs to Hyper-V environment is “experimental”. For details, see the Veeam Experimental Support Statement.

• 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

Before you start Instant VM Recovery, check prerequisites. Then use the Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V wizard to recover workloads as VMs.

1. Launch the Instant VM Recovery wizard
2. Select workloads
3. Select a restore point
4. Select a target host
5. Select a target datastore
6. Specify network mapping
7. Change VM name and UUID
8. Specify secure restore settings
9. Specify a restore reason
10. Verify Instant VM Recovery settings
11. Finalize Instant VM Recovery