Veeam agent restore to VMWARE, Nic?

[EviLin]

Hello,


We have around 20 vmware VMs that we backup with the veeam agent, because there is some sensitive software on it, that dont like the 'stun' by VMware snapshot.

When we run the instant restore and restore the VM in VMware, the VM gets created, but with an E1000 network card, the backed-up vm are running VMXNET3 Nic.
Is it possible to restore it with Vmxnet3?

[MaartenA]

Do not start the instant restore but first edit the vm by deleting the NIC and add a new NIC with the vmxnet3 at the same time, this will preserve the IP settings. Then start your vm via vcenter. I think setting the E1000 is by design when using a agent backup/instant restore.”P2V”

[EviLin]

You mean, Wait to hit migrate to production, and remove E1000 and install vmxnet3 on the published vm, and after that migrate to production?

[MaartenA]

You can migrate to production. Just dont let Veeam boot the vm so you can edit the vm when migration to production is done. My other comment was incomplete i just noticed.

[HostedBDR]

I agree with what was already said, swap it out after the fact as part of the restore process. I haven't seen a way to change the Veeam template to make it default/switch to VMXNET yet.

The other piece of this dialog though, the stun process, turn off Guest Quiescing/Guest Processing if you want to remove the stun. If you have already done this, apologies. If you haven't, that might be/might have been, your culprit right there.

Cheers.