About restoring VMware virtual resources

You can configure restore jobs to do the following:

Restore data to the original location or to an alternate location.
Power on virtual machines after the restore job completes.
Restore over existing virtual machines.
Restore with a new virtual machine name in VirtualCenter.
Select the preferred network for virtual machines to use after the restore completes.

When you use the Agent for VMware to create a restore job, the following processes occur in the order listed:

The Backup Exec media server sends a request to the temporary staging server.
The temporary staging server queries the virtual machines for status.
Restore data is transferred from the media server to the temporary staging server.
Restore data is imported from the temporary staging server using the VMware converter.

If you select to restore a single Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) file, then after the restore completes you must move the VMDK to the datastore. Then, the VMDK file, not the entire virtual machine, is restored.

If the virtual hard disk is configured as an Independent disk, then the VMDK file is not backed up.