Feature Request - Restore VM and specify disks

[alex.pajor]

Hi,
Trying to restore a VM for testing purposes and found that you can't just restore the C Drive. Request is to add the ability to restore the c drive on the VM to a new location as opposed to going through the hoops for disk restore.
Support recommended these steps but this is not going to work.


https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

[Mildur]

Hello Alex

Welcome to the forum.
What do you mean with new location? Do you want to restore the entire VM to a new location, but only Disk C?
As you may know you can do that by restoring only the VM Files directly to the vSphere datastore. Then create a new VM and mount the restored disk.


https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

May I ask, why Instant Recovery of the entire VM does not work for your scenario?
One use case for Instant Recovery (and SureBackup/Virtual Labs) is testing updates or configuration changes in an isolated environment without using the productive machine. Booting up additional disks with drive C shouldn't matter much when testing something on drive C.

Best,
Fabian