Instant VM Restore can quickly restart a VM directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file to minimize the downtime of production VMs. In this section, you will learn about the pre-requirement for instant VM restore and how to perform the process step by step.
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Instant VM Restore can quickly restart a VM directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file to minimize downtime of production VMs. Compared with full VM restore which takes longer time but has full I/O performance, instant VM restore can restart the VM within seconds but has limited I/O performance.
You can launch the restore wizard to restore VMs to the most recent state or to any available restore point through instant VM restore.
For instant VM restore, make sure that the hypervisor is authorized to access and mount the backup destination (shared folder).
Select the VMs you want to restore and choose a restore point for each of them.
Select a mode for your restoration.
For users who choose Restore to the original location, you will pass directly to the summary step of the wizard.
For users who choose Restore to a new location, or with different settings, please specify the name and select folder, hypervisor, resource pool, network to run the restored VM. Changes made during instant VM restore will be stored on Synology NAS, and you may select the datastore when executing VM migration.
In the summary step, please check the information of restored VMs and click Apply to restore VMs and users will be automatically directed to Restore Status to monitor the restoration progress. To finalize the whole instant VM restore, please click migrate VM.
Enable power on VM automatically if you want to run the restored VM immediately. For testing purpose, it’s suggested not to select this option and manually disconnect the initial VM from the production network to avoid conflicts.