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Permalink Reply by DoubleDensity on September 9, 2014 at 9:47am

Hi Caleb!

Here are the steps you would use to restore an individual mailbox to an Exchange server VM. In order to run this process ensure that the vmPRO can ping your Exchange server as it will need to utilize the iSCSI protocol during the recovery.

First, launch the Recovery Virtual Machines wizard from the SmartMotion menu - select the VM which is your Exchange server:

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Permalink Reply by Caleb Kauer on September 9, 2014 at 9:52am

Thanks so much for the reply.  This looks promising.  There is a box that comes up saying "You must first configure a storage device to be used as the iSCSI write area."  Is there something special I need to do here? 

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Permalink Reply by DoubleDensity on September 9, 2014 at 3:02pm

Hi Caleb,

Yes, before you can run the Exchange Recovery process you must select a storage device to hold temporary files for the vmPRO iSCSI service. This space is used so that vmPRO can make the VMDK disks from your backup appear to the Exchange Server to be read/write. Once the Recovery process is complete, the iSCSI disk is dismounted and the contents of this temporary folder are cleared.

You can find this setting under Configure -> iSCSI:

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Permalink Reply by Caleb Kauer on September 10, 2014 at 5:58am

Thanks a ton! This has helped me alot. 

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Permalink Reply by Caleb Kauer on September 23, 2014 at 11:55am

I am running into a problem.  When I come to the 3rd screen in your tutorial there is no "database" to choose from.  It just says " looking for exchange database information in the back-up".  Not sure what my issue is? 

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