|
WORK IN PROGRESS
|
| This article is in the initial stage and may be updated, replaced or deleted at any time. It is inappropriate to use this document as reference material as it is a work in progress and should be treated as such.
|
Copyright © SEP AG 1999-2024. All rights reserved.
Any form of reproduction of the contents or parts of this manual is allowed only with the express written permission from SEP AG. When compiling and designing user documentation SEP AG uses great diligence and attempts to deliver accurate and correct information. However, SEP AG cannot issue a guarantee for the contents of this manual.
Overview
As SEP sesam v. 4.4.3 Beefalo, you can perform an online VMware sandbox restore by using the Restore Assistant, if you have an appropriate permissions, see Restore Assistant.
SEP sesam sandbox for VMware is an isolated environment where you can recover and start one or several virtual machines (VMs). It is useful for verifying the VM backups, performing a training, troubleshooting issues, etc.
Prerequisites
- Ensure that you have sufficient restore permissions and access rights.
- Ensure that there is enough free space on the target system to which you are restoring your data.
- Make sure that you use a different network for the sandbox restore to avoid IP address conflicts, as the original VM is usually still active.
Accessing the restore assistant
You can access the Restore Assistant from the SEP sesam GUI by clicking the Restore Assistant icon in the toolbar, from Activities -> Restore Assistant, or by typing the following information in the browser address bar:
http://[sesamserver]:11401/sep/ui/restore/
|
Note
|
| If you cannot access the online Restore Assistant, check if you have been granted appropriate permissions to perform an online restore. For details, see About Authentication and Authorization.
|
Procedure
- Open the Restore Assistant in the browser.
- From the Start window, check Sandbox restore check box under VMware vSphere virtual machines, and click Next.
- From the Source window, select the relevant vSphere server and a virtual machine. Click Next.
- Then from the Backup window, select the relevant task, backup, and check the relevant options, depending, if you want to restore VM configuration and/or VM disk. Click Next.
- Select the restore target (vSphere server, Datacenter and Virtual machine), and a relevant execution option (Do not restore an existing virtual machine, Restore an existing virtual machine with a new name or Overwrite an existing virtual machine), click Next.
- From the Options window, select relevant restore target options from the drop-down lists, such as Data mover, ESX server, Data store, Network interface(s), Folder and Resource pool/vApp. Click Next.
|
|
Note
|
| In v. 4.4.3 Beefalo V2, you can also set VM uptime and enable/disable different VM sandbox checks, i.e., power state check, guest tools state check and network IP address check.
|
- In the final step of the Restore Assistant, review your restore task configuration, and click Start restore, if you want to start your sandbox restore immediately.
|
Tip
|
| You can check the status of all restore jobs by clicking the Monitoring icon (second icon in the upper right corner of the Restore Assistant). The results can be filtered by clients, by task, or by message.
|
