VMDK Post-Restore Considerations

• Catalogic DPX creates a unique disk name for the VMDK to be restored, restores the VMDK to the target datastore, and attaches it to the target VM.

• To complete the replacement of a corrupted VMDK, power off the existing disk, correct the drive letter or mount point, and assign the required drive letter or mount point to the newly created disk. For VMs running Windows, if the target machine is different than the source machine, the disk may appear as offline and you need to make it online.

• For VMs running Windows, if the target machine is different than the source machine, the disk may appear as offline and you need to make it online. The offline condition does not appear if you restore to the original machine with Check this option to delete the virtual machine if it exists on the target host selected.

• For VMs running older versions of Windows, drive letters may be automatically assigned to VMDK volumes if the Windows automount option is turned on. Otherwise, to access the volume data, manually assign a drive letter. To access data for multiple disk partitions, assign a drive letter to each partition.

• For VMs running Linux, mount the VMDK via operating system partitioning tools.