Investigating and understanding the Instant VM Recovery process and steps
When it comes to conducting an Instant VM Recovery, four main steps take place in the background:
- Initialization Phase: This is the initial step in the process, and Veeam Backup & Replication prepares the resources necessary for Instant VM Recovery. It does the following:
a) Starts the Veeam Backup Manager process on the Veeam backup server
b) Checks the Veeam Backup service for whether the necessary backup infrastructure resources are available for Instant VM Recovery
c) Communicates with the Transport Service on the backup repository to start the Veeam Data Mover
- NFS Mapping: Once the backup infrastructure resources are ready, an empty NFS datastore is mapped to the selected ESXi host using the vPower NFS service. Veeam Backup & Replication then creates VM configuration files and links to the virtual disk files while remaining in the backup repository. Then, changes get written to the...
