Exploring Instant VM Recovery – what is it?
Within Veeam Backup & Replication, there is your typical backup and restore operations, but what happens when you need to recover an entire VM that has corrupted files or files that have been accidentally deleted? This problem is where the Instant VM Recovery option comes in handy – it allows you to immediately restore different workloads as VMware vSphere VMs by running them directly from your backup files. The supported backup file types are as follows:
- Backups of VMware vSphere VM created with Veeam Backup & Replication
- Backups of vCloud Director virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication
- Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines created with Veeam Backup & Replication
- Backups of virtual and physical machines created with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux
- Backups of Nutanix AHV virtual machines created with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV ...