How to Restore VMware VM in Vinchin Backup & Recovery?

Vinchin provides various built-in user-friendly backup and restore functionalities to fully protect your entire VMware vSphere environment in standalone ESXi or vCenter-managed host.

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Updated by Iris Lee on 2024/09/09

You will learn how to easily backup and restore VMware VM with Vinchin Backup & Recovery here. Vinchin supports VMware vSphere v7.0, VMware vSphere v6.x, VMware vSphere v5.x, VMware vSphere v4.x, VMware ESXi v7.0, VMware ESXi v6.x, VMware ESXi v5.x, VMware ESXi v4.x, VMware vCenter v7.0, VMware vCenter v6.x, VMware vCenter v5.x, VMware vCenter v4.x, VMware vSAN v7.0, VMware vSAN v6.x, providing various built-in user-friendly backup and restore functionalities to fully protect your entire VMware vSphere environment in standalone ESXi or vCenter-managed host.

Before you restore VMware VM, you need to have a VMware backup.

Let’s open a browser and log in Vinchin Backup server web console. Go to VM Backup > Restore page.

Step 1. Select Restore Point

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In the list, you can see all the available restore points. Just select the VMware restore point you want to restore, and click Next.

Step 2. Select Restore Destination

Select a Target Host where to run the restored VM. Here, you can simply configure the restored VM. You can also choose to power on the VM after restoring. After configuration, click Next.

Step 3. Select Restore Strategies

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In Schedule, you can choose Restore as Scheduled or Once-off Restore. Restore as scheduled will automatically restore the VMs at a specific time, and Once-off Restore will restore the VMs only once.

You can also set up transmission strategy, choose to transfer via LAN, Encrypted transfer, SAN or HOTADD.

After configuring all recovery policies, click Next.

Step 4. Review and submit the job

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Once the job is created, you’ll be redirected to the job list page and the restore job will run now.

Click the job name to check the job progress. And the flow chart shows the real-time transmission speed and the bar under it is the job progress.

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Here, you can see the VMware VM has been successfully restored.

Restore VMware VM

You can also choose instant restore to recovery the data within 15 seconds. If you just need some files in that backup, you can restore just files with granular restore.

Vinchin is offering a 60-day free trial for our VMware VMs protection service. Experience our robust and reliable service in your own environment. For more information or to get started, please contact Vinchin directly or reach out to our local partners. Begin your path towards better data protection today!

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