VM Instant Recovery

Enterprise

Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For upgrade inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

Starting With Bacula Enterprise 12.6, it is now possible to recover a vSphere Virtual Machine in a matter of minutes by running it directly from a Bacula Volume.

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Any changes made to the VM disks are virtual and temporary. This means that the disks remain in a read-only state. The users may write to the VM disks without the fear of corrupting their backups. Once the Virtual Machine is started, it is then possible via VMotion to migrate the temporary Virtual Machine to a production datastore.

The feature is available inside the mount-vm script and follows this workflow:

  1. User chooses a VM backup.

  2. Script mounts the VM disks locally.

  3. User chooses the ESXi host that will own the VM.

  4. Script creates a temporary NFS Datastore locally.

  5. Script creates and powers on the VM in this temporary NFS Datastore.

  6. User chooses to keep the VM permanently or to discard it.

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