Element: How to restore a VMware virtual machine from a SolidFire snapshot
Applies to
- Element Software 10.x
- Element Software 11.x
- Element Software 12.x
- vSphere 6.x
- vSphere 7.x
Description
In some cases, just one VM needs to be restored from a snapshot rather than restoring the whole volume/datastore. This article provides the steps required to manually restore a virtual machine in a vSphere environment using snapshots in SolidFire / HCI environments. This workflow is is non-disruptive to the other workloads running in the volume/datastore.