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  4. Instant recovery option is disabled for the selected recovery point
NetBackup™ Plug-in for VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) Guide

Instant recovery option is disabled for the selected recovery point

The Instant recovery option is disabled for the selected recovery point if it is not instant recover- ready

Note the following about instant recovery of VMware virtual machines:

  • Supports the following storage unit types (disk only):

    BasicDisk, AdvancedDisk, Media Server Deduplication Pool (MSDP).

    Note:

    Snapshot-only backups are not supported.

  • Does not support a virtual machine that had disks that were excluded from the backup. The policy Virtual disk selection option must be set to include all disks.

  • Does not support a virtual machine that has a disk in raw device mapping mode (RDM) or that has a disk in Persistent mode.

  • Supports the following policy schedule types: Full backups, and the incremental backups that include the Use Accelerator option with a disk-based storage unit. Incremental backups without the Use Accelerator policy option are not supported.

  • Does not support virtual machine templates.

Contact a NetBackup administrator to check the backup details.

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