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VSC 6.0 Restore VM for Diagnostics

DANKRATZ96 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:59:52 GMT

One of the Windows Server vm's has become unstable and slow, and its web app will be migrated to a new vm during the next maintenance period. In the interim I'd like to restore a duplicate from volume snapshot (to run diags on) using VSC Web Client. The VSC 6.0 Admin Guide walks through mounting a snap and restoring the VM, but it does not appear a vm can be restored without impacting the original.

Is there a method where a VM can be restored from snap while the original VM continues running in the ESX 6.0 cluster? Documented?

Thanks,

Dan

Re: VSC 6.0 Restore VM for Diagnostics

EricNTAP — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 17:30:40 GMT

This has not been updated for vSphere Web Client, but it contains the information and ideas needed:

https://community.netapp.com/fukiw75442/attachments/fukiw75442/virtualization-and-cloud-articles-and-resources/18/1/Rapid+VM+Restore+From+vCenter1.0.pdf

Re: VSC 6.0 Restore VM for Diagnostics

Dsanches — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:24:50 GMT

I want something like that to test patch update on our databases, but idk if is possible.