Here we accidentally delete
the contents of datastore via the vSphere Client and have to recover it. In the
example below, we have the LONNFSVOL3 datastore - which contains 2 VMs - and
all the contents of the datastore will be deleted.
Note: It’s not possible to delete an NFS datastore via the vSphere
client, only unmount.
Image: LONNFSVOL3 datastore
Image: LONNFSVOL3 datastore after deleting the contents (.snapshot
cannot be deleted as read only)
vSphere Client
> Home > Solutions and Applications > NetApp
Backup and
Recovery > Restore
- Click the ‘Refresh’ button in the top right to display
the available backups
- Select the backup we want to restore from
- Right-click the entity we want to restore and select
‘Restore’ and the ‘Virtual Machine Restore’ window pops up
Image: VSC 4.1 >
Backup and Recovery > Restore > Restore (Datastore Entity)
Restore Entity
- Are you sure? Click Yes
Image: VSC 4.1 Restore (Datastore) Entity warning prompt
And wait for the contents of the Datastore to be to the
original datastore!
The End!
IMPORTANT NOTE:
What’s interesting here is that the contents of the datastore are copied into
the original volume. The snapshot is not simply rolled back (which would be
much quicker.) This approach makes sense in the situation where new stuff has
been added to the datastore which we don’t want to lose, and just the old
contents need to come back in. In this highly nested lab, it took 30 minutes to
do two VMs of 4 GB size.
Image: NetApp Restore from Backup Start and Finish (~24 minutes)
Image: LONNFSVOL3 datastore with contents restored
Note: With the VSC, it is also possible to simply mount a backup
snapshot, and VMs could be run from here then Storage vMotioned back into the
original datastore.
Image: VSC 4.1 > Right-click Backup options = Edit (rename backup),
Mount, Unmount, Delete
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