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38 Setting Up the Dell
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DR Series System on Veeam | April 2016
4 Using Veeam Instant VM Recovery with the DR Series
system
Veeam’s Instant VM Recovery immediately restores a virtual machine (VM) back into your production
environment by running it directly from the backup file.
Instant VM Recovery uses patented vPower® technology to mount a VM image to a production VMware
vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V host directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file.
By default, all changes to virtual disks that take place while the VM is running are logged to auxiliary redo
logs residing on the NFS server (Veeam backup server or backup repository). These changes are discarded
as soon as a restored VM is removed, or they are merged with the original VM data when VM recovery is
finalized, that is, when VM is migrated back to production storage.
The Veeam vPower NFS service is a Windows service that runs on a windows backup repository server and
enables it to act as an NFS server.
4.1 Instant Recovery for ESX VM backups
1. To enable instant recovery for ESX VM backups, do the following:
a. Create a backup job for the required VM as described previously in Section 3 with the only
difference being to set the vPower NFS Datastore in the vPower NFS tab.
b. On the vPower NFS tab, select the checkbox, Enable vPower NFS Server, and select the
appropriate folder as the NFS Datastore. You can configure the NFS Datastore on a different
Windows server if required. This is done by selecting the drop down and adding the host and
associated credentials. Click Next.