Restoring VM from Backup While Original VM Still Exists
Backup/restore can be used to recover failed/corrupted VMs, make VM copies for testing purposes, and more.
After restoring, the original VM may continue to exist – in which case JetStream DR continues protection of the original VM and will not start protection for the new one automatically.
A restored VM will already have the JetStream DR IOFilter attached because restored backups retain the original storage policy.
Certain snapshot and vMotion operations, or an attempt to start protection of such VMs may fail because the JetStream DR IOFilter is already attached.