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Virtual machine instant recovery

Instant recovery enables you to recover a failed or corrupted VMware or Hyper-V VM and access it in minutes.

To perform instant recovery, select a recovery point associated with a full, incremental, or differential backup. The appliance creates a new VM from the recovery point. The new VM can assume the role of the original and is available for use immediately.

Instant recovery uses a backup, or imported backup copy, to recreate the VM in the target location. The instant recovery process also creates a disk image, known as a recovery object, on the backup appliance. Data from this disk migrates to the new VM. The recovered VM remains fully operational during the migration.

The target location can be the original host or an alternate host running the same software version as the original or a later version. You must add the recovery target to the appliance that stores the backup, or imported backup copy, intended for the recovery.

When performing instant recovery, you can choose to perform the recovery in audit mode or instant recovery mode. Use audit mode to verify recovery points. Use instant recovery to replace a failed or corrupted VM.

Once the instant recovery completes, tear down the recovery object to make the reserved space available for other instant recovery processes.

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