How to Perform Veeam Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V

Performing Instant Recovery on Microsoft Hyper-V allows administrators to quickly restore virtual machines (VMs). How to achieve this goal?

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By Crystal / Updated on November 26, 2024

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Instant Recovery to Microsoft Hyper-V

Veeam Instant VM Recovery mounts workload disks to VMs directly from backups, ensuring fast recovery and minimizing downtime, achieving shortest Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager allows you to instantly restore VMs from backups to Microsoft Hyper-V. This article describes how to perform Veeam instant VM recovery to Hyper-V and how to use free tool for instant VMware recovery.

Veeam Instant VM Recovery Hypper-V

How to Perform Instant Recovery to Microsoft Hyper-V [Steps]

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select Home on the bottom left menu.

2. Click Restore and select Microsoft Hyper-V > Restore from backup > Entire VM restore > Instant recovery > Instant Recovery to Microsoft Hyper-V.

Instant Recovery to Microsoft Hyper-V

3. At the Machines step, select one or more VMs you want to recover.

  • Click Add, then select where to browse for VMs and VM containers, whether From infrastructure or From Backup.
  • Select the VMs you want to restore and click Add.

Add Machines

  • If you want to select a specific restore point (by default Veeam uses the latest valid restore point), then in the Virtual machines to restore list, select the VM and click Point, then in the Restore Points window, select the required restore point.

Select Restore Points

4. At the Recovery Mode step, select Restore to the original/a new location and click Next.

Select Recovery Mode

5. In the Host step, specify a target Hyper-V host or a Hyper-V cluster where you want to locate the recovered VMs.

6. (Optional) In the Datastore step, specify a path to the folder where VM configuration files and disks will be stored.

💡Note: This step is available if you recover workloads to a new location or with different settings.

Select Volumes

7. (Optional) In the Network step, select the necessary workloads from the Network connections list. Then click Network to select a network to which the selected workload must be connected after recovery.

Configure Network

8. (Optional) In the Name step, specify names under which VMs will be recovered and select whether you want to preserve VM UUIDs or change them.

Specify VM Name

9. In the Reason step, enter a reason for performing the Instant Recovery.

Enter Restore Reason

10. In the Summary step, choose if the target VMs should be powered on and connected to the network, and then click Finish.

Start Instant Recovery Hyper-V

💡Note: After the VMs have been successfully recovered, you must finalize the process. For this, test the recovered VMs and decide whether to migrate them to production environment or stop publishing.

Related: Instant VM Recovery to VMware [Free Tool]

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Conclusion

Hyper-V environments often host critical applications. Instant recovery ensures that these workloads remain accessible, even during emergencies. Performing Veeam instant recovery to Microsoft Hyper-V offers businesses a reliable solution for minimizing downtime.

Crystal
Crystal · Editor
Crystal is an editor from AOMEI Technology. She mainly writes articles about virtual machine. She is a positive young lady likes to share articles with peolpe. Off work she loves travelling and cooking which is wonderful for life.