Performing VM Restore

In case a disaster strikes, you can restore an entire Nutanix AHV VM from a backup or snapshot. Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV allows you to restore one or more VMs at a time, to the original location or to a new location.

Supported Workloads

To restore machines to a Nutanix AHV cluster, you can use the following backups and snapshots:

• Snapshots of Nutanix AHV PDs created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV
• Snapshots of Nutanix AHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV
• Backups of Nutanix AHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV (including VMs with volume groups attached and VMs with no disks attached)

• Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication

• Backups of virtual and physical machines created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux
• Backups of VMs created by vCloud Director
• Backups of Amazon EC2 instances created by Veeam Backup for AWS

• Backups of Microsoft Azure VMs created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure
• Backups of Google Cloud VM instances created by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud
• Backups of oVirt KVM VMs created by Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization
• Backups of Proxmox VE VMs created by Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE

VM restore is supported only for snapshots stored in the Nutanix AHV cluster and for backups stored in backup repositories, object storage repositories, and on the performance, capacity and archive tier of a scale-out backup repository (except for backups stored in the archive tier that consists of the Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval extent; for those backups, you can perform Instant Recovery).

How to Perform VM Restore

To restore a protected VM, you can use either the Veeam Backup & Replication console or the Nutanix AHV backup appliance web console. However, only the Veeam Backup & Replication console allows you to restore workloads of different types and to choose a location for the restored VMs.