Performing VM Restore

In case a disaster strikes, you can restore an entire oVirt VM from a backup. Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV 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 oVirt KVM cluster, you can use the following backups:

• Backups of oVirt KVM VMs created by Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization (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 Nutanix AHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV.
• Backups of Proxmox VE VMs created by Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE.

VM restore is supported only 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).

How to Perform VM Restore

To restore a protected VM, do the following:

1. Launch the Full VM Restore to oVirt KVM wizard.
2. Select a restore point.
3. Choose a restore mode.
4. Specify a target cluster.
5. Select a storage domain where VM virtual disks will be stored.
6. Specify a name for the restored VM.
7. Configure network settings.
8. Specify a restore reason.
9. Verify restore settings.