Review the following considerations before you fully restore an instance in place or out of place for Google Cloud Platform.
In Place
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If you want to restore a GCP instance that was turned off during a backup operation, you must assign that instance an external IP address using the GCP portal.
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The private IP address of the source instance is included in full backups. For in-place restores, if the private IP address is available, it is restored to the instance. If the private IP address is not available, then a new private IP address is automatically assigned to the instance. To restore private IP address information, you must add the compute.addresses.useinternal permission to your GCP service account. For more information, see Creating a Google Cloud Platform Service Account.
Out of Place
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You can use shared virtual private cloud (VPC) networks.
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If the instance selected for restore includes regional disks, all of the regional disks are restored to the selected zone.
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When restoring a backup VM from a sole-tenant node to a different project or zone, Commvault restores it in the sole-tenant node.
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When restoring a source instance that is part of a sole-tenant node to different project or zone, the restore operation operates without the sole-tenant properties.
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If you want to restore a GCP instance that was turned off during a backup operation, you must assign that instance an external IP address using the GCP portal.
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From streaming backups or backup copies of encrypted disks, you can restore full instances, files or folders to the same project or to a different project. During the restore operation, the Commvault software verifies whether the source encryption key ring and key are present in the project that you are restoring to. If the key ring and key are present, Commvault assigns them to the new instance disk. If the key ring and key are not present, Commvault generates a new key ring and key (with the same name as the source encryption key ring and key) and assigns them to the new instance disk.
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The private IP address of the source instance is included in full backups. For in-place restores, if the private IP address is available, it is restored to the instance. If the private IP address is not available, then a new private IP address is automatically assigned to the instance. To restore private IP address information, you must add the compute.addresses.useinternal permission to your GCP service account. For more information, see Creating a Google Cloud Platform Service Account.