Restoring

To restore a VMware virtual machine backup, start the Xopero application and go to Restoring tab. All the virtual machines that have been backed up are available in the VMware branch.

Expand that Hyper-V branch and select the virtual machine that will be restored. Then click the Restore selected button.

A restore settings window will be opened, where you need to select a location, where VM files will be saved.

Restore Virtual Machine to a VMware ESXi host

Downloaded virtual machine can be imported again the VMware ESXi server. To do that, you need to use VMware vSphere Client.

Below process has been described using VMware ESXi 5.5 Standard

Using this tool, log into VMware environment and go to Configuration tab. In the Hardware menu, that is available on the left side of the window, select Storage – you should see all the defined datastores.

Right-click the selected datastore, where the machine will be uploaded, and choose Browse data. In the window with datastore content, click the icon visible on below screenshot and select the folder, where previously restored machine is saved. It will place the VM’s files on the selected VMware datastore.

After uploading the VM files to the datastore, in the opened window go to the folder and find the main configuration file of that machine wth the *.vmx extension. Right-click that file and choose the Add to Inventory option. After that the machine will be imported. You can now start that machine on VMware ESXi host.