Restoring VMware data

Data Protection for VMware restore scenarios are provided in this section.

Mounting a virtual machine disk and exporting the volumes
You can restore one (or more) files from a virtual machine that was backed up to IBM Storage Protect server storage.
vSphere environment restore scenario
This scenario demonstrates how to restore VMs with the vmcli -f restore command.
Full VM instant restore scenarios
A backed up VM is restored and available for immediate use.
Full VM instant restore integrity validation scenarios
A new VM is built from the requested VM backup and is available for immediate use.
Verifying Active Directory replication
When a VM guest that contains an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) is restored with Data Protection for VMware, the DC (on that VM) is restored from a backup copy of the AD database.
Restoring a virtual disk using multiple sessions
To optimize performance for restore operations, multiple sessions can be used to restore a virtual disk.
Restoring virtual disks using a CSV file
To specify different options for parallel restore operations, you can use a CSV file.

Parent topic: Protecting data