Full VM instant restore scenarios

A backed up VM is restored and available for immediate use.

Instant access and instant restore capability is supported only for VMware VMs that are hosted on VMware ESXi 5.1 servers, or later versions.

This command completes an instant restore of the VM with the name Cologne.

dsmc restore vm Cologne -vmrest=INSTANTRestore -vmtempdatastore=Verify_datastore

This command completes a regular restore (without starting the VM) when the VM named San_Jose is being restored.

dsmc restore vm San_Jose

Alternatively, you can also use the following command:

dsmc restore vm San_Jose -vmrest=noni

In this command, the -vmtempdatastore option specifies a temporary data store on the ESX host. The data for the new VM is stored in this temporary data store:

dsmc restore vm Haifa -VMRESToretype=INSTANTRestore -vmname=Haifa_verify 
-VMTEMPDAtastore=Verify_Datastore

The temporary data store is used by Storage vMotion to store the configuration of the restored virtual machine during the instant restore process. The name that you specify must be unique. It cannot match the name of any of the original data stores that were used by the virtual machine when it was backed up, and it cannot be the same as the name specified on the optional –datastore option. If the –datastore option is omitted, the virtual machine files are restored to the data stores that they used when the virtual machine was backed up.

This command completes an instant restore of the VM with the name Oslo with the -pick option to pick a specific backup version.

dsmc restore vm Oslo -vmrest=INSTANTRestore -pick -vmtempdatastore=datastore_temp

This command queries to find all active and failed instant restore sessions.

dsmc query vm * -VMRESToretype=INSTANTRestore

This command retrieves the metadata for all instant restore session from the Tivoli Storage Manager server and prints that information as a list.

This command completes a cleanup of the VM and all its components. These components include iSCSI mounts, devices, and temporary data that are identified by the VM name on the ESX host.

dsmc restore vm Oslo -VMRESToretype=VMCLeanup -vmname=Oslo_Verify

This command queries information about the real state of the listed VMs based on information from the vSphere SDK on the ESX host.

dsmc query vm * -VMRESToretype=INSTANTRestore -Detail