Backup and Restore VMware Virtual Machines
Enterprise Workloads Editions:
Business
Enterprise
Elite



This section provides information on how you can configure Druva to backup and restore virtual machines in your environment. It describes Druva capabilities, Druva configuration, actions to backup and restore virtual machines, and monitoring activities.
- Introduction to Data Protection for VMware
- This guide provides an introduction to Hybrid Workloads for VMware. It discusses different concepts related to protecting a VMware setup and workflows for backup and restore activities.
- Plan and Prepare
- This guide provides information about system requirements and various prerequisites.
- Deploy Backup Proxy
- This guide provides information about different tasks to configure your VMware setup with Druva.
- Backup Virtual Machines
- This guide provides information about methods to configure virtual machines for backup.
- Restore Virtual Machines
- This guide provides information about how to perform restore of virtual machines in your virtual environment.
- Restore virtual machine data
- Restore MS SQL Server databases on VMware virtual machines
- Quarantining virtual machines resources
- Restore considerations
- Restore prerequisites
- Restore full virtual machine
- Restore virtual machines instantly
- Restore virtual machines using sandbox
- VMware Migrate to Production pre-checks
- VMware restore pre-checks
- Manage Virtual Machines
- This guide provides information about various tasks you can perform to manage your virtual machines.
- Manage backup policy
- Manage administrative groups
- Reconfigure virtual machines configured for backup
- Enable or disable backup on virtual machines
- Delete a virtual machine configured for backup
- Delete virtual machine recovery points
- Manage vCenter or ESXi servers
- Migrate vCenter or ESXi
- Reconfigure rules
- View and export discovered VMs
- Manage Backup Proxy
- This guide provides information about different aspects of managing your backup proxies.
- Troubleshooting
- Describes common workarounds of issues that you might encounter while backing up or restoring virtual machines.
- Reference Articles
- Contains articles that you might want to read wile working with a VMware setup.
- Use the vCenterDetail utility
- Hybrid Workloads agent logs and configuration details
- Use the vmcontrol utility to enable CBT
- FAQs on application-aware processing on VMware virtual machines
- Auto configuration FAQs
- Considerations for installing third-party software on a VMware backup proxy
- Druva and Azure VMware Solution
- Druva and VMware on Public Cloud integration
- Exporting data from Druva Cloud using AWS Snowball Edge
- Impact of Thick and Thin Provisioned VMware Disk on the current source
- VMware Instant Restore FAQs
- Migrate VMware backup proxy from CentOS to new Ubuntu proxy
- Process workflow of application-aware backups on VMware virtual machines
- VMware functionalities
- When is thin disk backed up or restored as thick disk
- Monitor VMware Jobs
- This guide provides information of VMware jobs.