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It depends what type of Backup you have and from what!<br />
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Is it a Block Copy, e.g. the entire VM (vmdk and all files!)<br />
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or is it just the Files and Folders, and System State of the Machine ?
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It depends what type of Backup you have and from what!

Is it a Block Copy, e.g. the entire VM (vmdk and all files!)

or is it just the Files and Folders, and System State of the Machine ?

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It is files and folder, and system state. Some servers are netbackup some are backupexec.<br />
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Hang over from when they were physical servers.
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It is files and folder, and system state. Some servers are netbackup some are backupexec.

Hang over from when they were physical servers.

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OK. Going to have a raw ESXi server.<br />
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Also, got a windows 2008 server with tape drive etc which is networked to this ESXi. Got backup tapes for both Netbackup and BackupExec (different method for different hosts).<br />
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First instance, I guess I need to install backup/restore clients on Windows 2008 server. But how do I restore a VM in this way?<br />
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Do I need to build a VM first and then restore from tape?
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OK. Going to have a raw ESXi server.

Also, got a windows 2008 server with tape drive etc which is networked to this ESXi. Got backup tapes for both Netbackup and BackupExec (different method for different hosts).

First instance, I guess I need to install backup/restore clients on Windows 2008 server. But how do I restore a VM in this way?

Do I need to build a VM first and then restore from tape?

Restoring VM from tape - netbackup/backupexec

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.