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esxi 5.5 and VSC 6.2 Single File Restore Problem

dormelchen — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:03:36 GMT

hello together,

what is working:

restoring an entire Maschine or Disk, but we cannot restore single files from an Backup via VSC.

When i tried to attach a disk

NETAPP VSC -> attach virtual disk i always get

No backups are available whose disk can be attached

I know that there was an option with SingleFileRestore in older versions, but attach a disk from a backup would solve my problems.

any idea how to get this working ?

We have Ubuntu and Windows Virtual Machines

thanks and regards

Re: esxi 5.5 and VSC 6.2 Single File Restore Problem

EricNTAP — Tue, 10 May 2016 13:24:23 GMT

The Attach Virtual Disk option is available if you have VSC integrated with SnapCenter.

Re: esxi 5.5 and VSC 6.2 Single File Restore Problem

dormelchen — Thu, 12 May 2016 10:00:17 GMT

hello this is integrated in VSC 6.2 in the vSphere Administration menu

Re: esxi 5.5 and VSC 6.2 Single File Restore Problem

jgebhart2 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 13:17:46 GMT

Would you explain what this means?

I'm having this same problem and the only way I'm able to perform a single file restore is to mount a backup and dig the VMDK out of the cloned datastore myself.

Re: esxi 5.5 and VSC 6.2 Single File Restore Problem

neerajd — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 20:58:57 GMT

hi dormelchen

VSC6.2 Single file restore work with Snap Center.

you can deploy snapcenter and register VSC 6.2 with Snap Center.

check the restore logs in SnapCenter GUI-- under "Monitor".

thanks

Neeraj