About restoring VMware virtual resources

You can configure restore jobs to do the following:

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

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.