User guide

[Only if the console is connected to the management server] You can select the machine that will

perform recovery. This can be any registered machine where Agent for Windows or Agent for

Linux is installed.

3. Click OK to return to the Recover data page.

6.2.3.3 Virtual machine settings

The following virtual machine settings can be configured.

Disks

Initial setting: the number and size of the source machine's disks.

The number of disks is generally equal to that of the source machine. It might be different if the

software has to add more disks to accommodate the source machine volumes because of limitations

set by the virtualization product. You can add virtual disks to the machine configuration or, in some

cases, delete the proposed disks.

When adding a new virtual disk, along with interface and capacity, you can specify its format.

 Thin format. The disk occupies as much storage space as the data it stores. This saves the storage

space. To enable thin format, select the Thin provisioning (for ESX), or Dynamically expanding

disk (for Hyper-V) check box.

 Thick format. The disk occupies all the provisioned storage space. This improves the virtual

machine performance. To use thick format, clear the Thin provisioning (for ESX), or Dynamically

expanding disk (for Hyper-V) check box.

The default setting is thick format if a physical machine was backed up. When recovering from a

virtual machine backup, the software tries to reproduce the format of the original machine's disks. If

this is not possible, thick format is used.

Implementation of Xen machines is based on Microsoft Virtual PC and inherits its limitations: up to 3 IDE disks

and 1 processor. SCSI disks are not supported.

Memory

Initial setting: if not contained in the backup, it is the default setting of the virtualization server.

This is the amount of memory allocated to the new virtual machine. The memory adjustment range

depends on the host hardware, the host operating system and the virtualization product settings. For

example, virtual machines may be allowed to use no more than 30% of memory.

Name

Initial setting: if not contained in the backup, New virtual machine.

Enter the name for the new virtual machine. If the backup was created by Agent for ESX(i) or Agent

for Hyper-V, the software takes the name from the virtual machine configuration contained in the

backup.

Processors

Initial setting: if not contained in the backup or if the backed up setting is not supported by the

virtualization server, it is the default server's setting.