Sangfor HCI Full VM Restore
Create Full VM Restore Job
To create a Sangfor HCI full VM restore job, you can get started from the VM Backup > Restore > Full Restore page.
The New Restore Job wizard for Sangfor HCI opens. Please complete the wizard follow the below steps.
Step 1. Select Restore Point(s)
Select restore points from the Restore Point column, you can choose from All nodes or specific node to locate the restore points. The selected restore point(s) will be listed in the Selected restore points column.
You can quickly find the target restore point by searching the job name, VM name or the date of the restore point.
After selecting the Sangfor HCI restore points, please click on Next to continue.
Notice
You can only select restore points from the same virtual platform into a same job, if you have restore points from multiple virtual platforms, please create multiple full restore jobs separately.
Step 2. Select Restore Destination
In the Target Host dropdown list, you can select a target host on which you'd like to restore.
After selecting Sangfor HCI host, Unified Configurations and VM Configurations will appear.
Unified Configurations: If you are restoring a group of VMs, enable this function you can set the storage, network, and choose whether to power on the target VMs after restoring.
VM Configurations: Here you can setup advanced restore options for specific VM(s) by clicking on the VM name, modifying the configurations of one VM will not affect the unified configurations of the other VMs if you had enabled Unified Configurations option.
Name & Status: You can set a customized name for the VM to be restored and set its power status after restoring.
CPU: Here you are allowed to change the number of CPUs or CPU cores for the VM to be restored if necessary.
RAM: Here you are allowed to change the RAM size of the VM to be restored if necessary.
Virtual Disk: Virtual Disk settings are optional, you can proceed with the given default settings.
In the Virtual Disk column, there are checkboxes for the VM virtual disks, when a VM has multiple disks, you can choose to restore specific disk(s) without having to restore all the disks of the VM. But if you don’t restore the disk on which the operating system is installed, the restored VM will not be bootable, you need to re-install a new operating system or mount the restored disk to another VM to be able to access this virtual disk.
In Restore To column, you can select datastore to which the virtual disk will be restored. By default, Vinchin will automatically select a datastore to restore the VM virtual disk.
By clicking on Advanced, you can find virtual disk Interface which the value Common Disk(Original) cannot be changed.
Virtual Network: Virtual Network settings are also optional. It allows you to select the virtual network to be connected to and the MAC address assignment of the restored VM.
In the Connect to column, you can select a desired virtual network for specific virtual network interface of the VM, by default it will automatically select one from the available virtual networks. By clicking on Advanced, you can setup the MAC address assignment for the virtual network interface.
By default, the virtual platform will auto generate a new MAC address for the VM, but you can also use the original MAC address or customize the VM MAC address if you prefer.
Other Settings: HA will automatically list restored VMs to high availability pool.
Data Encryption: If the VM backup data is encrypted (Data Encryption enabled in backup job), when restoring the VM you need to provide the data encryption password for verification under Other Settings tab, otherwise without the data encryption password, the VM cannot be restored
After selecting the target host and configuring the restored VM, please click on Next to continue.
Step 3. Configure Backup Strategies
General Strategy
Under the General Strategy tab, you can setup the restore Schedule, Throttling Policy, Advanced Strategy.
In the Mode dropdown list, you can choose Once-off Restore or a Restore as Scheduled.
If you choose Once-off Restore, the restore job will start running right after the job has been created. If you choose Restore As Scheduled, you need to set restore schedules. After this, the job will run as scheduled.
Notice
Only if you need to regularly restore the VM(s) to certain status from backups, you can choose to use Restore As Scheduled option, otherwise please use Once-off.
For Throttling Policy, it works the same principle as the VM backup jobs.
For Advanced Strategy, you can configure multithreading for the VM restore job, and it works the same principle as multithreading for the VM backup jobs.
Transmission Strategy
For Sangfor HCI , the backup data can be transferred through LAN, Encrypted Transfer. For more information of the data transmission methods, please refer to Data Transmission.
Step 4. Review and Confirm Job Settings
After completing the above-mentioned settings, you can review and confirm the settings in one screen.
A job name can be specified for identification of the VM restore job, and by clicking on the Submit button to confirm creating Sangfor HCI VM restore job.
Notice
If this VM restore job is configured as “Once-off Restore”, it will start restoring the VM(s) right after the creation of this job.