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Restoring the VMware virtual infrastructure

The Unitrends virtualization protector supports the following restore methods:

Restore method

Description

Entire virtual machine

This method restores the entire virtual machine and associated metadata with the configured peripherals from any Unitrends recovery point. The recovery point can be associated with a full, differential, or incremental backup. See Restoring the entire VMware virtual machine.

File-level recovery

This method allows item (file/folder) level recovery from the VADP-based virtual machine backups. Data is accessed using CIFS (Samba) and iSCSI protocols. Data can be recovered in a single pass from any recovery point associated with a full, differential, or incremental backup of the virtual machine. See Restoring files from VMware backups.

Instant Recovery

This method provides instant availability of the virtual machine leveraging Storage vMotion to transfer data while the virtual machine is up and running. See Instant recovery for VMware.