Using restore to files and VMware converter to restore VM (4034594)

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1/ open restore window in NetVault

2/ select VM

3/ open options tab select restore file from backup and input the target directory for file to be restored.

4/ on completion of restore go to the restore directory.  You will see a list of files here similar to below

01/04/2014  09:00             2,685 ORACLELINUX.vmx

01/04/2014  09:05       420,872,192              scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX-s001.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:05     1,320,484,864            scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX-s002.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:05     2,016,804,864            scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX-s003.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:05       907,542,528              scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX-s004.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:05         4,325,376                 scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX-s005.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:05       148,701,184              scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX-s006.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:05            65,536    scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX-s007.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:00               802                       scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX.vmdk

01/04/2014  09:00            13,758    VirtualMachineConfigInfo

5/ you will see a list of vmdk files .  You will notice they have a prefix of their SCSI address “scsi0-0”.  All the disks with “scsi0-0” represent 1 disk and all with prefix of  “scsi0-1” will represent a second disk and so on.  This is because NetVault splits the disk files during the backup.  The file without the  “-s00x”  is the disk configuration file in this case the file is “scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX.vmdk” .  

6/ We need to modify  the VMX file to use this file mane instead of the original disk file name to do this we need to edit the XMX file.  We will see an entry as below:

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "ORACLELINUX-000001.vmdk"

scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"

the vmdk file name is the original disk file name we need to replace this with the config vmdk file name as below :

 scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "scsi0-0-ORACLELINUX.vmdk"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"

This will allow the converter to recognise the files a one disk when restoring to the esx server or vCenter server.

7/ you will need to repeat this processes if there are multiple disks i.e. further  SCSI ID’s against disk files

Example “scsi0-1”  “scsi0-2”

8 once this has been done you can use the VMware converter to restore the VM with the same name  or during the restore you have the option to change the name of the VM.

Note select VMware workstation or other VMware virtual machine for converter restore