Discovering the requirements and prerequisites for Instant Recovery
Now that you understand the Instant Recovery process better, we will look at the required components and prerequisites. There are a few components from Veeam Backup & Replication that are necessary and there is storage space to consider as well:
- vPower NFS Service – This is the service installed on a Windows server that allows it to act as an NFS server to mount the backup files for the Instant Recovery process.
- Disk space for the cache folder – Instant Recovery requires additional free space for the cache folder (non-persistent data – at least 10 GB is recommended).
- Production Storage – If you are going to use Storage vMotion or Quick Migration, then you will need enough storage for the VM to restore based on the size of the VMDK files.
Instant VM Recovery's main component is the Veeam vPower NFS Service, as it performs the bulk of the workload during the...