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Attaching a Disk to an Azure VM

You can perform a restore operation that attaches a disk to an Azure VM.

Requirements

If a passkey is configured for restores, you must have the passkey.

Limitations

You cannot perform attach disk restores for the following cases:

  • From backups of unmanaged VM disks

  • From backups of encrypted VM disks

  • For Azure Classic, to multiple destination VMs that are part of the same Cloud Service group

Procedure

Select the Disk to Restore

  1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Virtualization.

    The Virtual machines page appears.

  2. On the VM groups tab, in the row for the VM group that contains the disk, click the action button action_button , and then click Restore.

    The Select restore type page appears.

  3. Select Attach disk to existing VM.

    The Attach disk to existing VM page appears.

  4. To select a specific MediaAgent and/or source for the restore, in the upper-right area of the page, click the Settings button gear button.

    By default, the Commvault software automatically selects the MediaAgent and source as follows:

    • MediaAgent: The software uses the MediaAgent that performed the backup.

    • Source: By default, the software searches for the requested data in the primary copy. If the data is not found in the primary copy, the software selects a secondary or auxiliary copy.

    For more information, see MediaAgent and Copy Precedence Considerations for Virtualization Restores.

  5. Select the disk to restore, and then click Restore.

    The Restore options dialog box appears.

Select the Hypervisor and VM to Restore the Disk To (Admin Users Only)

Note

The following steps are performed on the Other hypervisor tab, which appears only for admin users—not for end users.

  1. For Destination hypervisor, select the hypervisor to restore the disk to.

  2. For Access node, leave Automatic (the default value) selected, or select an access node or an access node group.

    If you select Automatic, the Commvault software performs the restore using the most suitable access node from the destination hypervisor.

    If you select an access node group, the Commvault software performs the restore operation using the most suitable access node that is available in the access node group.

    For access node selection, the Commvault software checks for the same region. If no region match is found, then any of the available access nodes from the selected destination hypervisor or access node group is used.

  3. For Destination VM, select the VM to restore the disk to.

  4. For Disk name, you can enter a different name for the restored disk.

    If you do not enter a new disk name, a unique disk name is created automatically including a time stamp.

  5. For Storage Account, select the storage account to restore the disk to.

Select the VM to Restore the Disk To

Note

The following steps are performed on the My hypervisor tab, which appears for both admin users and end users.

  1. For Select destination VM, select the VM to restore the disk to.

    Only VMs that you have permissions for are available to select.

  2. For Disk name, you can enter a different name for the restored disk.

    If you do not enter a new disk name, a unique disk name is created automatically including a time stamp.

  3. Click Submit to start the restore job.

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