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Parallel Processing for Restores?

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Hi,

Any ideas if there will be the option in the near future to allow for parallel restore operations on the same VM?

In my environment I have VM's with 6-8Tb of storage, spread across multiple virtual disks, and I find that sequential restore is just way to slow.

Sequential restores do not seem to use the full bandwidth available, which is a waste and just increases the recovery time.

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Re: Parallel Processing for Restores?

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for the feedback and for this feature request. Can you please tell me how you're restoring this server now? Have you tried a hotadd restore to speed it up?

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Re: Parallel Processing for Restores?

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Thanks Vitaliy,

I am just using the restore entire VM with registration option.

I wasn't aware that I could do a hotadd on a restore into vSphere - I thought it had to go via the management network connection?

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Re: Parallel Processing for Restores?

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Yes, you can do hot add restores, and it is the recommended way with 1Gb Ethernet. Just make sure you have virtual proxy running on the host that can access the datastores you are restoring virtual disks to.
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Re: Parallel Processing for Restores?

Post by dellock6 » 1 person likes this post

Martin,
maybe is only a trick, but you can use Instant VM recovery even if you only need to restore some virtual disks and not the entire VM, I wrote about it, maybe it can help you at list as a temporary solution:

http://www.virtualtothecore.com/en/rest ... -recovery/

While the disk is already connected and used, a simple Storage Vmotion can re-align all the vmdks in a single folder, both the ones already in the production datastore and the one(s) restored from the backup.

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