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.