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Content Libraries
If you delete libraries or items after a backup, you cannot access or use these libraries or items after the
restore. You can only delete such libraries or items. A warning message notifies you that there are
missing files or folders in the storage backup.
If you create new items or item files after the backup, the Content Library Service has no record of the
new items or files after the restore operation. A warning notifies you that extra folders or files were found
on the storage backup.
If you create new libraries after the backup, the Content Library Service has no record of the new libraries
after restore. The library content exists on the storage backing, but no warning is displayed. You must
manually clean the new libraries.
Virtual Machine Life Cycle Operations
n
Restoring vCenter Server from a backup that was taken while there are in-flight relocation operations
within the vCenter Server instance.
After you restore vCenter Server, the vCenter Server view of the virtual machines may be out of sync
with the ESXi view of the virtual machines. This is also true if you performed the backup while there
were in-flight operations on vCenter Server. If virtual machines disappear after you restore
vCenter Server, you can refer to the following cases.
a The missing virtual machine is located on the destination ESXi host and is registered with the
destination ESXi host, but it is not in the vCenter Server inventory. You must manually add the
virtual machine to the vCenter Server inventory.
b The missing virtual machine is located on the destination ESXi host, but it is not registered with
the destination ESXi host and it is not in the vCenter Server inventory. You must manually register
the virtual machine to the ESXi and add the virtual machine back to the vCenter Server inventory.
c The missing virtual machine is located on the destination ESXi host, but it is not registered with
the destination ESXi host. Within the vCenter Server instance, the missing virtual machine is
marked as orphaned. You must remove the virtual machine from the vCenter Server inventory
and add it again.
n
Restoring vCenter Server from a backup that has an out of date linked clone virtual machine layout.
If you create a linked clone virtual machine after the backup and you restore vCenter Server from the
old backup, then after the restore, vCenter Server does not know about the new linked clone virtual
machine until vCenter Server discovers the new linked clone virtual machine. If you remove all
existing virtual machines before the new linked clone virtual machine is discovered, then the removal
of existing virtual machines corrupts the new linked clone due to missing disks. To avoid this
corruption, you must wait until all linked clone virtual machines get discovered by the vCenter Server
before you remove virtual machines.
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