Planning the recovery of a Nutanix AHV VM
You can recover your Nutanix AHV VM using NetBackup's Backup, Archive, and Restore console or the command line interface. Planning the recovery location and the recovery options is an important pre-requisite before you start the recovery process.
You have the following recovery location options:
Original location
Recover the virtual machine in the same Nutanix AHV cluster or container that was set during the backup.
You can modify or set the following configurations before recovering to the original location:
Overwrite the existing VM
Retain the existing VM UUID
Remove the network interfaces
Retain the MAC address
Power on the VM after recovery
Overwrite the default job priority
Table: Recovery location options
Original location | Alternate location |
|---|---|
Recover the virtual machine in the same Nutanix AHV cluster or container that was set during the backup. | Recover the virtual machine to a different AHV cluster or container. |
You can modify or set the following configurations before recovering to the original location:
| You can modify or set the following configurations before recovering to the original location:
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Use the recovery options to modify the virtual machine configuration before you recover the VMs. The recovery options are available in the Virtual Machine Options dialog box in the Backup, Archive, and Restore console and must be set as the command line options or in the rename file with the command line.
For more information about the rename file,
The following table describes the various recovery options for the Backup, Archive, and Restore console and the command line interface:
Table: Recovery options for the Backup, Archive, and Restore console and the command line interface
Recovery option - Backup, Archive, and Restore | Recovery option or keywords - command line Hypervisor policy | Description of recovery options |
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K | Overwrite the existing virtual machine in the AHV cluster. Use the K command line option to not overwrite the existing virtual machine. | |
vmid | Create a new ID for the VM that is different from the existing value that was set during the backup. Use the vmid command line option to retain the VM UUID. | |
vmpoweron | Turn on the VM after recovery. | |
vmsn | Remove the network interface that was set for the VM during the backup. | |
vmmacid | Retain the MAC address that was set for the VM during the backup. | |
vmname in the rename file: change vmname to new_name | Change the virtual machine name to a new name. | |
vmserver | Set the Nutanix AHV cluster where you want to recover the virtual machine. | |
NA | Set a custom priority for the recovery job. | |
change /<orig_container1> /<disk_uuid1> to /<alt_container1> Add in the rename file. | Select the Nutanix AHV container where you want to recover the virtual machine. You can select a different destination container for every source container. Note: Restore the disks from the same source container to the same destination container. |
For more information on using the recovery options using the command line interface, See Using the command line to recover Nutanix AHV virtual machines for Hypervisor policy.