Restore of VMDK to ESXi Server

[Crazy_Excalibur]

Is it possible to restore a vmdk that was backed up with Backup Exec 2012 vmware agent, to a seperate ESXi server.

We have a vCenter Server with 3 ESX Hosts. The backup is of one of the VMs on this cluster, and we would like to restore it on a ESXi server that is not in this cluster. This is mostly to test DR scenario, is this possible?

Thanks.

[lmosla · Accepted solution]

So yes, you would just need to do a redirected restore using the options available in the restore wizard and define the stand alone host and one of its local datastores as the target.

NOTE: this post has been edited to remove an attached file that would usually be under the control of Symantec Education

[Colin_Weaver]

In addition to Lmossla answer above, you would still need the appropriate vStorage licensing from Vmware itself enabled on the ESXi host

[Crazy_Excalibur]

Thank you. This is was what I was looking for.