NBU Instant Recovery and vmotion
I have a very small VMware environment--about 10 VMs--that lives on one ESXi host, and I am backing it up with a VMware policy. I was looking into Instant Recovery--spinning up a VM that was needed, then using vmotion to move the VM over into the ESXi environment... but I was told that we do not have vmotion capability. Someone else on the team had thought vmotion was a feature that came with our 5240 appliance (i.e. we could vmotion the vm back into place) but I thought this was a feature that vmware had to supply. Any tips or info, including links with info on this specific type of case would be helpful. Thanks in advance for your help.
VMotion is a licensed VMware feature, not a NBU feature. If you are not licensed for VMotion, IR storage VMotion of a VM back to your storage will not work, you'll have to do a restore.
