Options for Hyper-V Destinations

When you restore a VM as a Hyper-V VM, specify the Hyper-V configuration options.

Destination Options

• Virtualization Client: Select the Hyper-V virtualization client for the restored VM.

• Destination Client: Select a Hyper-V server from the list.

  The destination client must be a Hyper-V server that is running Windows Server 2012 R2 or a more recent version and has the Virtual Server Agent installed.

  The new Hyper-V virtual machine is automatically mounted to the Hyper-V server you select.

Virtual Machines Options

• Restore Location: Select one of the following options:

  • New folder: Select a location for the VM on the destination client:

    1. Click in the first row of the Destination Path column and click the browse button (...).

    2. Select a folder on the destination client where you want to restore the virtual machine and click OK.

    The destination path can be the path of a cluster shared volume (CSV).

    All virtual machine disks are restored to this path unless you specify different paths for each disk.

  • Hyper V default folder: If you do not know which volume on the server has the space required to restore the virtual machine, create the virtual machine on the default location of the Hyper-V server.

• VM and Disk: Displays the source VMs selected for the restore. You can expand a VM to show the associated disks.

• Change VM Display/Disk name to: To avoid overwriting an existing virtual machine with the same name on the Hyper-V server, click in the first row of the column and enter a new name.

• Destination Path: Select a location for the VM on the destination client.

  To restore each virtual machine disk in a different location, click each row in the Destination Path column and select a location for the corresponding disk.

• Settings: To modify other settings for VMs, you can select one or more VMs and then click Configure.

  The Settings dialog box includes the following options:

  • Edit Destination VM Name: If you selected multiple VMs, select Prefix or Suffix and enter a string to be appended to the destination VM names.

    If you selected a single VM, the VM Display Name entry shows the destination VM name, but you cannot change it on this dialog box.

  • Register Virtual Machines with Failover Cluster: Select this option to register the virtual machine with the failover cluster immediately after the restore. Once the virtual machine is registered, you can migrate it to any Hyper-V server in the cluster.

    To register the Virtual Machine with the failover cluster, the user name entered when creating the virtualization client must be part of the Hyper-V Administrators group.

    For a Hyper-V cluster, the user account must have full Cluster Permissions (Read and Full Control).
    When the virtual machine is created, it is automatically registered with the failover cluster.

    If UAC (User Account Control) is enabled on a virtual machine running on 2008 R2 Hyper-V server, you must register the VM with the failover cluster manually.

  • Network Adapter Configuration: Select an available network adapter from one ot both of the Network Adapter lists.

    By default, the network adapter of the original VM is selected automatically if the same network adapter is available on the destination Hyper-V server.

    If you select Not Connected, the virtual machine is restored without a network connection.

Restore Options

• Disk Provisioning: Select the disk provisioning for all restored disks:

  • Fixed: A fixed virtual disk has reserved storage that is the same size as the source disk.

  • Dynamic: Dynamic disk storage is not reserved and is allocated as needed when the VM starts. This option allows the disk to use additional storage as required, without allocating disk space that might not be used, and provides more flexible use of storage capacity.

• Power ON Virtual Machine after Restore: Select this option to start the virtual machine automatically after the restore operation completes.

• Unconditionally Overwrite VM and VHDs in destination path: Select this option to overwrite an existing virtual machine with the same name on the destination.

Job Options

On this page, you can choose to run the restore immediately or to create a schedule.

Summary

This page shows the options specified for the restore.