Hi there... say you have 25+ datasstores... Someone nukes a whole VM by mistake... forgets on which datastore it was located... tells you to restore it a few weeks later...
Is there a way to figure out where the VM was? It looks like SMVI is great at restoring VMs and disks that are already on the datastore, but it doesn't keep an account of what was there at the point of snapshot?
But isn't that excatly the point of a "backup" product? 😉
#In SMVI... how to restore a deleted VM?
dusty rain
prisma prawn
check the old backup log files maybe? IT might be faster to just browse through all datastores (depending on how many of those you have)
dusty rain
Well because this is all iSCSI LUNS you would have to map clones of your datastores and look there... not ideal... would have been nice with something that kept track of the VMs backed up...
acoustic flicker
I think there is no catalog information for deleted vms itself. At least not in the GUI, cause you can only restore whats visible in vcenter like you said. Maybe there is a smart way via REST Api cause the backup information has to be somewhere in the database.
We are using 3rd party tool “rvtools” and create daily vcenter inventory reports to keep track of historic information including all vms and their storage placement. Not optimal cause out of the netapp world but def helped already several times not only for restores. Believe it is still free license (vmware only)