VMware restore from VMFS3 to VMFS5

[BTLOMS]

Every time I try to restore a VM that was backed up when it was on VMFS3, to a new VMFS5 LUN, the restore completes fine, but I cannot boot up the VM. I tried to mount the VMDK on another server and read it, but it says disk is corrupted.

Is anyone aware of a bug or a known issue?

This is NBU 7.6.02

the backup was done on 7.5.05

thanks,

[SymTerry · Accepted solution]

If your able to restore the VM without any errors from NetBackup, it looks like NetBackup had a successful restore.

What is the ESXI version you running now? Have you checked the VM hardware version for compabilty with the ESXI your running? Virtual machine hardware versions

[Walker_Yang1 · Accepted solution]

Hi, BTLOMS

Do you mean that you backed up VM from 7505 and then upgrade to 7602, and then restore from 7602?

Not sure if yours is a issue. Here is similar to the following topic, where we dicussed that backup and restore from 7602 works fine.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/restoring-vmware-servers-different-datastore-vmfs-ver...

Could you please try a backup and restore from 7602 in your environment?

In addition, notice that if backup with hotadd, when you restore with default transfer modes(san:hotadd:nbd:nbdssl), the restore would fail. As a workround, restore with nbd only or hotadd only.

Thanks