# Restoring a Full Azure VM In Place

You can restore one or more Azure VMs to the original location (in place).

## Limitations

Due to a Microsoft limitation, you cannot change the hostname of a restored VM.

## Prerequisites

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

- If the VMs you want to restore are configured with Azure Site Recovery, disable replication in Azure Site Recovery. After restoring the VMs, you can re-enable replication.

- If the VMs you want to restore are configured with a disk encryption set (DES), verify the following:

  - The DES and the Azure Key Vault that manages the encryption keys for the DES are available in the region you want restore the VM to.

  - If you use a custom role to give Commvault access to your Azure resources, the role has the Microsoft.Compute/diskEncryptionSets/read resource type. All the custom roles that Commvault provides include this resource type.

    Note

    - Commvault runs the restore job even if your custom role doesn't have the Microsoft.Compute/diskEncryptionSets/read resource type.

    - If you restore a DES-encrypted VM from a snap, the VM is restored with the same DES as the source VM.

## Procedure

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

   The Overview page appears.

2. On the Virtual machines tab, in the row for the VM that contains the guest files, click the action button , and then select Restore.

   The Select restore type page appears.

3. Select Full virtual machine.

   The Restore 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 .

   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 data to restore, and then click Restore.

   The Restore options dialog box appears.

6. For Type, select In place.

   To avoid overwriting the original source VM, edit the VM display name.

7. For Access node, select an access node or an access node group for the restore.

   If you are restoring multiple VMs, select Automatic to distribute the workload (VMs) in the restore job across the access nodes that are assigned for the destination hypervisor. First, the VMs are assigned to the access nodes by a region match. Then, if access nodes are not available in the same region, the VMs are assigned using the round-robin method. The Automatic option is available for full restore and conversion operations both from streaming backups and IntelliSnap backup copies.

   If you select an access node group to restore VMs, the Commvault software distributes the workload across the access nodes that are available in the access node group.

8. If you are restoring multiple VMs, click All VMs to specify the same values for all the VMs you are restoring, or select individual VMs to specify values individually.

9. Specify the following values:

   - VM display name: To change the name of an individual VM, enter the new name.

   - Storage account: Select an Azure Standard or Premium general-purpose storage account.

     You can select a different storage account for each VM and disk.

     Only locally-redundant storage (LRS) and StorageV2 (general purpose v2) accounts that are associated with the selected region for the restored VM are listed.

10. To automatically start the VM after the restore is complete, select Power on VMs after restore.

    - During the restore, the VM is briefly powered on, regardless of the value of this setting. This brief powering on of the VM is a necessary part of the restore process and cannot be changed.

    - The power state of the VM does not affect subsequent backups.

11. To restore an empty VM disk for a disk that is excluded from backup, enable the Recreate filtered disks toggle key.

    Note

    The Commvault software restores a disk as an empty disk only if this option is enabled and the disk is excluded from the backup. For information about excluding disks from backups, see Modifying Settings for an Azure VM Group.

12. To delete an existing VM and then replace it with the restored VM, select Unconditionally overwrite if it already exists.

13. Click Submit.

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