NetBackup supports protecting and restoring distinct storage policies which are assigned to a VM's home directory and also to any virtual disk.

A vCenter VM can have one or more storage policies assigned to it. NetBackup captures storage policy information during a VM backup and can apply the same or a different storage policy on a full-VM restore.

A best effort attempt to capture a VM's storage policy information is made during the backup process.

If a VM's storage policy information was captured during a backup and Use a storage Policy to select datastore option is selected during the recovery, the default storage policy information displayed is the information captured during backup.

If a VMs storage policy information was not captured during backup, NetBackup attempts to restore the selected storage policy assigned to a VM's home directory and/or its virtual disks during recovery of the VM. If the storage policy cannot be applied, NetBackup completes the recovery of the virtual machine to the selected datastore and set the job status to 1.

To restore a VM with storage policies that are different than what was captured during backup time, the web UI or CLI needs to be used for the restore.

To troubleshoot storage policy-related issues during backup, refer to the bpfis logs. To troubleshoot storage policy-related issues during restore, refer to the brpd and bpVMutil logs.

vMotion derived restore of an Instant Recovery (IR) or Instant Access (IA) VM, does not apply storage policies.

To apply the storage policies information on full VM restore, the recovery host version must be 10.3 or later.

vMotion derived restore of an Instant Recovery (or Instant Access) VM does not apply storage policies.