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Instant VM Recovery

With Instant Recovery feature, you can immediately restore an AHV VM into VMware vSphere or Hyper-V environment by running it directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file. Instant Recovery helps to improve recovery time objectives, minimize disruption and downtime of production VMs.

To perform instant recovery to Hyper-V or VMware vSphere, follow the steps of the Instant Recovery wizard. Depending on the platform to which you want to recover AHV VMs, see one of the following guides:

Note

You can immediately restore AHV VMs only into VMware vSphere or Hyper-V environments. You cannot perform instant recovery to AHV hosts/clusters due to AHV restrictions.

Instant VM Recovery