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First of all, with the Select location drop-down list you should define the desired destination for your
restore task. Please choose if you want to restore the selected virtual machine(s) to their original
location or to a different ESX(i) host or datastore. The list shows only those ESX(i) hosts which are
managed by Acronis vmProtect 9 Agent. If the ESX(i) host you need is not in this list, then make sure
it is added in the Configure -> ESX(i) hosts view.
When the Original Location is selected for restoring VM(s), you can implement the incremental
restore mode by selecting the Use Incremental restore check box. Incremental restore checks and
restores only the blocks that have been changed on the original VM instead of restoring all the data
over the virtual machine. This mode can help to increase the speed of recovering from the slow
backup locations like Acronis Cloud Storage or other slow connections and help to minimize the
traffic during recovering.
Note that the incremental restore mode can be used only if the recovery is performed over the
original VM that has been used to create a backup. In case the recovery is performed to a new
location or the original VM is missed, a full recovery is performed.
When restoring to Original Location the restored VM may not appear in the same location
(automatically overwriting the existing VM) as it was at the moment of creating the recovery point.
This will be the case if the selected VM (defined by the recovery point) has been migrated to a host
and/or datastore, ESX(i) host, resource pool or vApp. Since VMs are preserving their UUIDs during
migration, the recovery will go to the current location of the virtual machine. For example, at the
moment of creating the recovery point the VM was in vApp1, but later it has migrated to vApp2.
Then this VM will be restored to vApp2 overwriting the existing VM.
Once the ESX(i) host is defined, the list of available resource pools and datastores is build up
automatically where you can define the exact location for the restored virtual machine(s).
You should also define the format of the restored virtual drives, As in original VM (recommended),
Thick provisioning disk or Thin provisioning disk with the respective drop-down list. Thin
provisioning increases the VM storage utilization by enabling dynamic allocation and intelligent
provisioning of the physical storage capacity.
Based on this selection, a hint will appear indicating how much space is required on the datastore for
the successful recovery operation. You cannot proceed to the next step of the restore backup task
wizard until the valid datastore with enough free space is selected.
Note that when restoring multiple virtual machines all of them will be placed to the destination
defined at this step of the restore wizard, each to unique new VM on the selected datastore.
