Xenserver Recover Vm From Storage

This video is a step by step guide to restoring virtual machine or data from reattached or restored storage repository in xenserver.

Xenserver recover vm from storage.

When the power came back on initially my vm wasn t working said something about a mkdir failing so i found this may be over came by restarting again then the problem. I setup my xenserver created a ubuntu vm then placed my itunes library 300gb onto the system. Xenserver dr works by storing all the information needed to recover your business critical vms and vapps on storage repositories srs that are then replicated from your primary production environment to a backup environment. It covers how to reinstall a xenserver host and preserve.

Originally i thought it was a xenserver 5 6 issue but i have over this past weekend upgraded to 6 0 and still have the issue. Ive been dealing with this issue for a little while now. This is referred to as online coalescing. Browse to locate the backup file and then click open to begin the restore.

Select the server in the resources pane then on the server menu click restore from backup. On my main storage repositories off of my iscsi san when i remove a virtual disk it wont recover all the space. End to end vm backup recovery and cloud management commvault s ability to provide end to end vm backup recovery and cloud management creates a. Download commvault vm backup and recovery.

When you remove a host from a xenserver pool the host gets reinitialized so any vms running locally get lost. After this i then go to install another vm after failing i restart the server although during restart we had a powercut. Luckily it s not too hard to recover the vdis from lvm. On the host server reboot to the host installation cd and select restore from backup.

Online coalescing only applies to lvm based srs lvm lvmoiscsi and lvmohba it does not apply to ext or nfs srs whose behavior remains unchanged.