Use the vmstoragetype option with the restore VM command to specify the storage device type from which the snapshot is mounted with the Tivoli® Storage Manager recovery agent.
You can specify the vmstoragetype option with the restore VM -VMRESToretype=INSTANTRestore or restore VM -VMRESToretype=INSTANTAccess commands.
When vmstoragetype is specified, it is not necessary to set the storage type option in the Tivoli Storage Manager recovery agent GUI. The vmstoragetype overwrites the storage type setting in the Tivoli Storage Manager recovery agent GUI.
This option is valid on Windows only.
Place this option in the client options file (dsm.opt) on the Windows mount proxy system, or on the command line.
dsmc restore vm Orion –Host=esxi.example.com –datacenter=mydatacenter
–VMTEMPDAtastore=temp_datastore –VMRESToretype=INSTANTRestore
–datastore=mydatastore -VMSTORAGEType=VTL
This command
specifies the name of the virtual machine to restore, the host and
data center to restore it to, and the restore type (-VMRESToretype=INSTANTRestore).
The -VMSTORAGEType=VTL option identifies the snapshot
(Orion) that is to be mounted by the Tivoli Storage Manager recovery agent is on
VTL storage pools. The VMTEMPDAtastore option
is a mandatory parameter for instant restore operations.