Performing VM Restore
In case of a disaster, 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.
VM restore is supported only for backups stored in backup repositories, object storage repositories, Veeam Cloud Connect 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).
Note |
You cannot restore VMs from backups stored in external repositories and on tapes. However, you can copy backups to a supported repository and then use them to restore VMs. |
How VM Restore Works
During the VM restore process, the following steps are performed:
- The Veeam Backup & Replication console sends the restore session configuration data to the backup appliance.
If multiple VMs are added to the restore session, these VMs are processed in parallel.
- [This step applies only if you perform restore to the original location and if the source VM is still present in the location] The backup appliance powers off the source VM and removes it from the oVirt KVM environment.
- The backup appliance launches a worker.
- The worker connects to the Virtualization manager over REST API and creates a VM in the target location.
- The worker creates empty virtual disks in the target location. The number of empty disks equals the number of disks attached to the source VM.
- The worker connects to the backup repository and restores backed-up data to the empty disks.
If multiple disks are attached to the source VM, the worker restores these disks sequentially, one disk at a time.
- The worker attaches the created disks with the restored data to the VM.
How to Perform VM Restore
To restore a protected VM, do the following: