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mobcdi
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VDP 5.5 Restore Disk (How to view properties before restore)

When restoring individual vmdks from a vm backup in VDP 5.5 is there a way to see more details or properties of the drive before restoring? As far as I can tell it just says Disk 1....Disk x but its not possible to view the disk size or format type used

My reason for asking is if I remove a disk on the source vm between backups as I understand it the disk that was disk n is not listed as n-1

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snekkalapudi
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I exactly have the same question in mind and as a workaround, I used FLR to view the contents of the backed up drive/disk before running the normal restore steps.

-Suresh
mobcdi
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Restoring a individual vmdk looks to also restore a version of the vm itself including vCPU,vRAM, I thought restoring an individual disk would give me just 1 .vmdk file on the datastore I selected and it would be up to me to attach it to a vm

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