Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide User Manual

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ESXi Host Configuration Recovery

Note, if you do not select the VMs backup locations here, these VMs will not be recovered
automatically after the recovery of the initial ESXi server configuration. In this case, you will have to
recover the missing VMs manually.

Also note, that unpredictable issues may occur if you restore ESXi host configuration to a new
machine while the original ESXi host is active and managed by a vCenter. Before doing so please
remove the original ESXi host from vCenter and add it back after performing the recovery.

The third step is to Configure Local Datastores. Because the original ESXi server can become faulty or
the system hard disk drive and the datastore can be lost, the destination configuration may differ
from the original server.

The list shows the detected HDDs and their size. Here you can see the datastores already present on
the detected HDDs. If the datastore on HDDs matches with the datastore in the original configuration
(stored inside the ESXi configuration backup), its name appears in green. If the datastore is detected
but does not match the original configuration, its name appears in yellow. If the detected datastore
is going to be cleaned up for a new datastore creation, its name appears in red. Select the Use for
new datastores check box to use the HDD for a new datastore creation.

The new datastore will be created on all the disks selected on this step overwriting any existing data
on these disks. Therefore, you should carefully verify the selection.

The ESXi system partitions will be created on the disk which you check under “Restore ESXi to:”
column. You can select the detected local or flash drive(s) here.

The fourth step is to Configure Virtual Network. This step is required to map the vSwitches present
in the ESXi configuration backup being restored to physical NICs. You can recover the ESXi
configuration backup on the same server or on different hardware. This step allows the following: