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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Managing and protecting cloud assets
  4. Protecting AWS or Azure VMs for recovering to VMware
NetBackup™ Web UI Cloud Administrator's Guide

Protecting AWS or Azure VMs for recovering to VMware

NetBackup allows you to protect AWS and Azure VMs and restore the protected VMs as on-premises VMware VMs. This section describes the considerations and prerequisites for the same.

  • NetBackup supports recovering backup images from AWS EC2 or Azure VMs in the MSDP storage server and MSDP Cloud, without using Glacier or Archive mode.

  • Supported operating systems of the source VMs:

    • Windows Server 2022 Series

    • RHEL 9.x

    • SUSE 15SP5: For source VM in AWS provider, must be created from HVM AMI. NetBackup does not support ARM-type VM conversion.

  • The network interface in the source VM must use DHCP and be enabled on boot.

  • If the source VM platform is Linux, it must be a UUID Linux VM used in /etc/fstab. If the source VM platform is Windows, enable pagefile on the C drive.

For more information on consideration and prerequisites required for preparing the VMs, refer to the following section:

Recovering AWS or Azure VMs to VMware

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