Disaster Recovery

[Itdweeb99]

I am using the community edition and was wonder what capabilities it has for disaster recovery. I am backing up a physical windows server with the community edition. I've already found that instant recovery doesn't work in the community edition. I get a version restriction when I try to run that. The only two options that I believe I have are booting off the recovery media on the original hardware or export disk contents as virtual disks. I assume for the latter, I can just create a new virtual machine and attach the virtual disks? Is there any other method that I'm missing that the community edition is capable of?

[veremin]

I've already found that instant recovery doesn't work in the community edition.

Can you tell us how exactly you have found this out? Community edition does support all restore capabilities including Instant Recovery. Thanks!

[Gostev]

He has he gets a version restriction when he tries to run that. This is unexpected.

[Itdweeb99]

Well that is a game changer if community edition does support instant recovery. I thought it didn't because when I go to do an instant recovery, I get an error during the restore session. It fails at "checking if vPower NFS datastore is mounted on host". Then it Fails to publish <servername> "Error: Unable to check if VPowr NFS is mounted on the host <vmware server>. Failed to connect backup datastore to the ESXi host. Failed to add NFS datastore for NFS host NAS. Failed to mount NFS volume. Fault "RestrictedVersionFault"

[Egor Yakovlev]

Double check if:

- you have a free ESXi version? It will not work due to missing vSphere APIs.
- is it older than vSphere 5.5? Older platforms support was dropped with VBR v11.

/Thanks!

[Gostev]

Yes, this error comes from the vSphere API and it talks about a vSphere restriction, rather than a Veeam restriction.

[Itdweeb99]

I'm using esxi 6.0 free version. Is there a way to install the missing API's? If not, I guess I resort to my original question.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Required APIs are enabled alongside any paid VMware edition license.
Cheapest vSphere Essentials edition shall do the trick!