Entire VM Restore

To restore a VM, Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization performs the following steps:

1. [Applies only if you restore the VM to the original location] Powers off and removes the original VM.
2. Launches a worker in the same cluster where the restored VM will reside.

If no worker is deployed in the cluster, Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV launches a worker that is deployed in any other cluster connected to the oVirt KVM Manager; if no workers are deployed in the connected clusters, the embedded worker is used instead.

3. Connects to the oVirt KVM Manager over REST API, configures a VM and creates empty virtual disks in the target location.

The number of empty disks equals the number of disks attached to the backed-up VM.

4. Uses the worker to connect to the repository where backed-up data is stored, retrieves the data and restores it to the empty disks — and then attaches these disks to the configured VM. If multiple disks are attached to the backed-up VM, these disks are restored sequentially, one disk at a time.

If the backed-up VM originally resided on a platform other than oVirt KVM, Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV attaches disks with the restored data to the target oVirt KVM VM in a specific order.

5. Suspends the worker when the restore session completes.

To learn how to restore an entire VM, see Performing VM Restore.